MUMBAI: In a startling revelation, the Maharashtra police yesterday said that the bomb blasts on Sept. 29 in the Muslim majority town of Malegaon in Maharashtra and in Modasa in the neighboring state of Gujarat were executed by the Hindu terrorist group, Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM), which is based in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state and is closely associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

According to police sources, the police have solved the blasts which killed five Muslims in Malegaon and one Muslim in Modasa in Sabarkantha district. The police have also succeeded in nabbing the key Hindu suspects and were interrogating them.

The Hindu terrorists had tried to hoodwink the police, by placing the bombs on motorbike below the office of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) office in Malegaon, just to give the impression that some Muslim terrorists had placed and triggered the blasts.

The police initially suspected SIMI activists or Indian Mujahedeen terrorists being behind the blasts in Malegaon as also in Modasa. During the investigations, the police found that Islamic stickers were placed on the seats of the motorbikes to mislead the investigators and point the needle of suspicion toward the Muslims.

But police investigators were taken by surprise when they found that the motorbike on which the explosives were placed in Malegaon was traced to Gujarat, even though the alleged Hindu suspects had erased the chassis and engine number. However, with the help from the motorbike dealer and inputs from the forensic experts, the police were able to track down the suspects in Gujarat.

According to a police official, the motorbike was owned by a person who had links with the ABVP and had given his two-wheeler to the Hindu extremists of the HJM.