Yasin Bhatkal engineered Mumbai riots

Mumbai: Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal has admitted that he has carried out the 2011 Mumbai triple blasts. He told the investigative agency that he has no remorse for what he did. Rather, he was proud of himself for carrying out the blast successfully.

The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), under which Bhatkal is charged with, authorises a DCP-level officer to record the confessional statement of the accused. When Deputy Commissioner of Police Kishore Jadhav asked Bhatkal why he wants to give confessional statement, he said, “I don’t regret for the blast that I have carried out and therefore, I want to give confessional statement.”

Bhatkal also told the police that he does not consider the blasts carried out by him as a crime. Bhatkal’s aide Asadullah Akthar also told the police, in the confessional statement that he, too, does not regret the blast carried out by him

In the confessional statement both the accused stated details of the blasts carried out by them in various places in the country since 2005 to avenge the 2002 Godhra riots.

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police on June 16 had filed a 300 page supplementary chargesheet against Bhatkal and his Akthar in connection with the 2011 triple blasts case