On 8 September 2006 , a series of bomb blasts took place in Malegaon , Maharashtra . The police arrested suspects who were muslims for these blasts , despite the fact that the victims were all Muslims . On 29 September 2008 , three bombs exploded in Modasa , Gujarat and Malegaon , Maharashtra killing eight people , and injuring 80 . Several unexploded bombs were found in Ahmedabad , Gujarat . Hemant Karkare , as the chief of the state Anti-Terror Squad , led the investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blasts . In late October 2008 , the ATS arrested eleven suspects , all Hindu , including a former ABVP student leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur , Swami Amritananda alias Dayanand Pandey , a retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and a serving Army officer Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit . Most of the accused belonged to a Hindutva group called Abhinav Bharat with prior links to Sangh Parivar organisations . Karkare 's ATS identified , for the first time , Hindutva organisations as being responsible for terrorism in India , and political commentators began to call it Hindutva terror or Saffron terror
bomb blasts
2006 Malegaon bombings
Hemant Karkare