18 years have passed since the Samjhauta Express tragedy, but victims are still deprived of justice.
On February 2007, Indian Hindu extremists made 68 innocent people, including Pakistani and Indian citizens, victims of state terrorism. On February 18, 2007, the Samjhauta Express, running between Delhi and Lahore, was set on fire at Panipat. 68 people, including 43 Pakistanis, 10 Indian citizens, and 15 unidentified persons, were killed in the fire.
10 Pakistanis and 2 Indians were also injured in the terrorist attack. After the incident, the arrest of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist Kamal Chauhan exposed the Indian conspiracy. During the investigation, RSS leader Swami Aseemanand and his associates were found responsible for the Samjhauta Express tragedy before a judicial magistrate. During the investigation, Indian army officer Lieutenant Colonel Purohit was also arrested.
Colonel Purohit also confessed during the investigation into the Samjhauta Express tragedy that he had trained Hindu terrorists to start an armed conflict between Pakistan and India. The mastermind of the Samjhauta Express incident was an organization called Abhinav Bharat. Abhinav Bharat was founded in 2006 by retired Indian Army Major Ramesh Upadhyay and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit.
According to reports, Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit was a serving army officer from the Intelligence Corps at that time. India has resorted to anti-Pakistan media campaigns and false flag operations countless times, but like the Samjhauta Express, every tactic of the Modi government has been exposed on its own. The victims of the Samjhauta Express have been seeking justice for 18 years, but India’s judicial system has also become a joke.
A special court of India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has acquitted all four accused, including Swami Aseemanand, in the Samjhauta Express bombing case. The Modi government’s official promotion of Hindutva has also exposed to the world India’s pretense of being a so-called secular state.
