Bomb blasts 2004 - 2014

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How bomb blasts scene in India has changed since Congress Rule From 2004 to 2014

  • Atal ji's government formally left on 22nd May 2004

  • Gandhi family appointed Shri Manmohan Singh to the post of Prime Minister…

  • Congress government remained at the center till 2014 i.e. for 10 years…

Lists

2004 - 1

  1. 15 August 2004- Bomb blast in Dhimji School, Assam, 18 dead and 40 injured

2005 - 4

  1. 5 July 2005- Terrorist attack on Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, 6 dead, dozens injured

  2. 28 July 2005- RDX bomb blast in Shramjeevi Express train in Jaunpur, 13 dead, 50 injured

  3. 29 October 2005- Two days before the festival of Diwali, serial blasts in the crowded area of Delhi's Govindpuri bus, Paharganj and Sarojini Nagar, 70 people were blown to pieces and more than 250 were injured, Tariq Ahmed Dar and Rafiq mastermind. .

  4. 28 December 2005- Terrorist attack on Bangalore Institute of Science, 1 dead, 4 injured

2006 - 3

  1. 7 March 2006- 28 devotees and civilians were bombed by 3 bomb blasts at the famous Sankatmochan Temple of Varanasi, the center of reverence for Hindus, and the crowded Cantt Railway Station, 101 people were injured, the hand of Lashkar Kuhab and SIMI

  2. 11 July 2006- Simultaneously in Mumbai—Serial blast in local train of Matunga Road, Mahim, Bandra, Khar Road, Jogeshwari, Bhainder, Borivali stations, 209 dead, more than 700 injured, Faisal Shaikh, Asif Ansari, Asif Khan, Kamal Ansari, Ehtasam Siddiqui and Naved Khan were the main architects of the incident.

  3. 8 September 2006- Serial blast in Malegaon mosque, 37 dead, 125 injured, hand in hand of banned terrorist organization Student Islamic Movement of India… Later an attempt was made to create a historically unsuccessful theory of Hindu terrorism by changing the charge sheet. Congress sent Indian Army Colonel Shrikant Purohit to jail for 7 years for creating Hindu terrorism. Gave terrible tortures… Purohit came out of jail after 9 years. Serial blast in Malegaon mosque

2007 - 4

  1. 18 February 2007- Samjhauta Express blast, 68 dead, 50 injured, Army Intelligence alleged the handiwork of Islamic terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba…

  2. Blast in Mecca Masjid of Hyderabad, 16 dead and 100 injured, Harkat ul Jihad al-Islami's hand… Congress once again tried to prove the failed theory of Hindu terrorism.

  3. 14 October 2007- Blast in Ludhiana theatre, 6 people died

  4. 24 November 2007- Serial bomb blast in the courts of Lucknow, Ayodhya and Banaras in Uttar Pradesh, 16 dead and 79 injured

2008 - 10

  1. January 1, 2008- Attack on CRPF camp in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, 8 dead and 7 injured, Lashkar-e-Taiba's hand.

  2. 13 May 2008- Serial blasts by RDX at 9 places in Chhoti Chaupar, Badi Chaupar, Manakpur Police Station area, Johari Bazaar, Tripolia Bazaar, Kotwali area of Jaipur, 63 dead, 200 injured, Harkat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami took responsibility.

  3. 25 July 2008- 8 serial blasts in Bengaluru, 2 dead, 20 injured

  4. 26 July 2008- Serial bomb blasts at 17 places in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 35 dead and 110 injured… Mufti Abu Bashir master mind… Abdul Qadir, Hasil Mohammad, Hussain Ibrahim together helped the network sitting in Karachi (Pakistan).

  5. 13 September 2008- 5 bombs blasted within 31 minutes in Ghaffar Market, Barhakhambha Road, GK1, Central Park, Delhi, 4 other bombs were defused, 33 died and more than 150 injured… Student Islamic Movement of India Outfit - Indian Mujahideen carried out the blasts.

  6. 27 September 2008- 2 bomb blasts in the electronic market of Delhi Mehrauli, 3 dead and 33 injured.

  7. 1 October 2008- Bomb blast in Agartala, 4 dead and 100 injured

  8. 21 October 2008- Bomb blast in Imphal, 17 dead, 50 injured

  9. 30 October 2008- Bomb blast in Assam, 81 dead and more than 500 injured

  10. 26-28 November 2008- Mumbai attack: Terrorist attack on Taj Hotel, Oberoi Hotel, Cama Hospital, Nariman House, Leopold Cafe, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, 166 people killed and more than 600 injured.

2009 - 2

  1. January 1, 2009- Bomb blast in Guwahati, 6 dead, 67 injured

  2. 6 April 2009, bomb blast in Guwahati, 7 dead, 62 injured

2010 - 2

  1. 13 February 2010- Bomb blast in Pune's German Bakery, 17 killed and 70 injured… Bomb blast carried out by the Indian branch of SIMI International Mujahideen Islamic Muslim Front.

  2. 7 December 2010- Bomb blast at Dashaswamedh Ghat during Ganga Aarti, 3 dead and 36 injured… Indian Mujahideen, the outfit of Student Islamic Movement of India, carried out the blast.

2011 - 3

  1. 13 July 2011- A massive bomb blast in Mumbai's Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar area, 26 dead and 130 injured… Indian Mujahideen, the outfit of Student Islamic Movement of India, carried out the blast.

  2. 7 September 2011- Bomb blast in Delhi High Court, 17 dead and 180 people injured… Indian medical student Wasim Akram, owner of Harkat ul Jihad al-Islami outfit, mastermind of the bomb blast.

  3. 13 February 2011- Attempt to bomb Israeli diplomat's car, bomb did not explode properly, 4 injured… Involvement of Indian journalist Muhammad Ahmed Kazmi.

2012 - 1

  1. 1 August 2012- Pune blast, blasts were carried out by Indian Mujahideen, an outfit of Student Islamic Movement of India.

2013 - 4

  1. 21 February 2013- 2 bomb blasts in Hyderabad, 18 dead and 131 injured… Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, Asadullah Akhtar, Tehseen Akhtar, Ejaz Shaikh masterminds of the bomb blast.

  2. 17 April 2013- Bomb blast in Bangalore, 14 people seriously injured

  3. 7 July 2013- Blast in Bodh Gaya, 5 people seriously injured… Omar Siddiqui, Azharuddin Qureshi, Mujibullah Ansar, Haider Ali, Imtiaz Ansari in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India in protest against the action taken against Rohingya terrorists in Myanmar. Had hatched a conspiracy to terrorize Bihar.

  4. On October 27, 2013, 8 bombs were blasted by Indian Mujahideen in Narendra Modi's rally in Patna, 6 dead and 85 injured…Conspiracy to kill thousands by creating stampede in the crowd of lakhs…Stampede due to wisdom of Modi and managers, Nahi machi… Mohammad Tahseen Akhtar mastermind… Blast was inspired by Chikmagalur Madrasa… Muzbulla, Haider Ali, Numan, Tariq Ansari absconded after the blast.

2014 - 1

  1. 1 May 2014- Bomb blast in Guwahati Bangalore Express in Chennai, 2 dead and 14 seriously injured.

These figures do not include attacks in Jammu and Kashmir because that is a different topic.

Batla House incident

Here it is important to remind one more thing that when Batla House encounter took place and Indian Mujahideen terrorists were killed in it, the then Congress chief Mrs. Sonia Gandhi cried bitterly after seeing the dead bodies of those terrorists. This was also confirmed by Home Minister Amit Shah ji in the parliament session in July, 2025.

From 2014 till now there are no such Bomb blast in India due to firm security.

Serial blast in Malegaon mosque

Lt. Col. Purohit revelations

An accused in Malegaon blast trial, 2008 - Lt.Colonel Prasad Purohit, revealed that he was tortured and his right knee was broken by the anti terrorist squad, who were illegally interrogating him and forcing him to name senior right wing leaders of RSS and VHP, Yogi Adityanath, the then BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh.

Sharad Pawar's claims of Hindu terrorists

More than a month before the blast, President of Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar, made a statement in Alibaug, that are not just islamic terrorists, but there are Hindu Terrorists also.

Term "Hindu Terror" coined

This is the first time, the term Hindu Terror was coined.

Aziz Burney's article

Aziz Burney, in the early part of 2009, written an article claiming that the ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who lost his life in the Mumbai terror attack, was killed by the Indian Army.

He also alleged that RSS and then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, CIA, Mossad were involved in this terrorist attack in Mumbai.

Aziz awarded by Manmohan Singh in 2007

Aziz Burney was awarded by Manmohan Singh in 2007 in the Cooperation of Regional Newspapers and their challenges, by Indian Language Newspapers Association. [India Today](https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/malegaon-2008-blast-lt-colonel-prasad-purohit-claims-tortured-to-name-rss-vhp-leaders-yogi-adityanath-2537338-2024-05-10](https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/malegaon-2008-blast-lt-colonel-prasad-purohit-claims-tortured-to-name-rss-vhp-leaders-yogi-adityanath-2537338-2024-05-10)

July 2025

Acquittal of convict in 2006 Mumbai blasts

Staying a judgement of acquittal in an appeal is rarest of rare option - CJI BR Gavai

Maharashtra government's petition challenging a Bombay High court judgement acquitting all12 convicts in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts in 2006 .

Blasts on 11/7/2006

The tragic loss of 187 lives and left approximately 824 people injured. On july 11, 2006, seven bomb blasts in the first class compartments of seven sub urban local trains of Mumbai between 6:23pm and 6:29pm

Bombay high court judgement

The bombay high court had concluded that the prosecution utterly failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

MCOCA court judgement

It had set aside the 2025 judgement of the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime act (MCOCA) court which had awarded death penalty to five and life imprisonment to seven.

August 2025

Verdict in the Malegaon blast

Exposed the congress party's consistent deep rooted prejudice against the Hindu community.

Detailed biography of Lt. Col. Purohit by journalist Smita Mishra.

Decorated Army officer, entrusted with infiltrating terror networks, ended up being framed as a terrorist himself, and sent for prison for 9 years.

The Congress led UPA regime invented the Hindu Terror to balance Islamist Terror in the public discourse.

Constructed by 3 key congress leaders

  1. August 2010, then Home Minister P Chidambaram - new phenomenon of "saffron terrorism", radical hindu outfits were implicated in bomb blasts.
  2. Digvijay Singh - terrorism among hindus
  3. Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde defended the saffron terror in january 2013. but later, Shinde admitted that coining the term was a mistake.

WikiLeaks cable from 2009, Rahul Gandhi reportedly told the then US Ambassador Timothy Roemer that Hindu radicalism was a bigger threat to India than Lashkar e Taiba.

1951 - Somnath temple was reconstructed and Rajendra Prasad, India's first president agreed to attend the inauguration. Nehru disapproved, fearing it would look like Hindu revivalism.

1985 - Supreme Court judgement of Shah Bano and Rajiv Gandhi overturning it.

1988 - Congress government banning the Satanic Versus book by Salman Rushdie, even before protests erupted in India.

2006 - PM Manmohan Singh, "We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development. They must have the first claim on resources."

How does denying reservation to marginalised communities in prestigious institutions like AMU and Jamia serve the social justice?

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