Anhad organized a day long convention on August 9, 2016 on Sangh Terror and Failures of Justice at the Constitution Club.

Evidence that Hindutva groups were seeking to acquire terrorist capabilities began to emerge in 2002. An improvised explosive device (IED) was found at the Bhopal railway station in December, evidently intended to target Muslims arriving in the city to attend a Tablighi Jamaat gathering. On November 21, 2003 there was a bomb blast at Mohammadiya Masjid in Parbhani, Maharashtra. In December, exactly a year after the discovery of the IED at the Bhopal railway station, another bomb is found in the Lamba Khera area, on the outskirts of Bhopal, on the last day of a Talblighi Jamaat meeting.

On August 27, 2004 there were blasts at the Meraj-ul-Uloom Madarsa and Masjid in Purna, and at the Quadriya Masjid in Jalna, both in Maharashtra, injuring 18 persons.
Bajrang Dal activists Naresh Kondwar and Himanshu Panse were killed in a bomb-making accident in Nanded, Maharashtra in 2006. in April. Police later found that the two men had allegedly been responsible for the Parbhani blast, and other Bajrang Dal activists linked to the Nanded cell were involved in the Purna and Jalna blasts.Blasts triggered at three different places in Malegaon, including a mosque-cum-graveyard where 38 people were killed. The occasion was Shab-e-Baraat and people had come to offer prayers for their dead.
On February 18, 2007, 68 people were killed and scores injured when two suitcase bombs exploded in the Indo-Pak Samjhauta Express when it was passing through Dewana village in Haryana. On May 18, a bomb blast at the historic 17th-century Mecca Masjid in the heart of Hyderabad kills nine persons and injures at least 50. In August, two Bajrang Dal activists, Rajeev Mishra and Bhupendra Arora, were killed in Kanpur while assembling bombs. On August 25, twin blasts rock Gokul Chaat and Lumbini Park in Hyderabad, killing 53 persons. On October 11, a low-intensity bomb explodes at the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, killing three persons.

On September 29, 2008 five Muslims are killed in Malegaon, Maharashtra, and another person in Modasa, Gujarat, when bombs exploded within minutes of each other. Police immediately blame their usual suspects, the Jehadis. The probe took a new turn, however, after the arrest of Dayanand Pandey, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Srikanth Purohit in October for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon blast. Police said the attack was carried out by the Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based Rightwing Hindu outfit, which reportedly had links with Abhinav Bharat, another such outfit based in Pune. The probe came to a standstill in November after the death of Maharashtra ATS Chief Hemant Karkare in the Mumbai terror attack.

On October 16, 2009 two men died when a bomb they were carrying explodes in Margao, Goa, on Diwali eve. The suspects are allegedly members of a Rightwing Hindu organisation called Sanatan Sanstha. On May 1, 2010 the Rajasthan ATS arrested Devendra Gupta from Bihariganj in Ajmer. He was allegedly responsible for procuring the SIM cards used for carrying out the Ajmer Dargah blast. Chandrashekhar, an RSS activist from Madhya Pradesh, was also arrested for his alleged role in the plot. Both are linked to Abhinav Bharat. However, Swami Asimanand, the alleged mastermind of the Ajmer and Malegaon blast, was still absconding. CBI Director Ashwani Kumar claimed that the bombs used in the Ajmer, Malegaon and Samjhauta express blasts had used the same arming devices that were procured from Indore. On May 17, the National Investigating Agency filed a charge sheet at a district court against 11 members of Sanatan Sanstha, a Rightwing Hindu outfit, for the 2009 Margao blast.

Recently Rohini Salian, the Special Public Prosecutor in in the case related to the Malegaon 2008 blasts case was quoted as saying, ‘Since this new govt came, I have been told to go soft on accused (Hindu extremists)”.

There is a need to bring these alarming facts to the attention of the society. The open communalisation of investigating agencies constitutes an enormous danger to the rule of law, to secular democracy, but also to the fight against terror. The attempt to shield the guilty should be therefore frontally challenged and combated at legal, social and political levels.

This convention, perhaps the first of this nature, was an attempt to bring forth the truth about these acts of terror and the ideology which is the inspiration for these dastardly acts. The aim is to present the total picture of the phenomenon of terrorism and the political agenda which is the foundation of such acts of terror.

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