Requested Deharadun-Uttarakhand STF for ‘strict surveilance’ on Sameer Sardana: Goa CM Parsekar

Parsekar further said that an additional letter from Superintendent of Police of ATS Goa on February 16th was sent to the counterpart force at Dehradun-Uttarakhand. “The letter to the Senior Superintendent of Police of the STF Dehradun-Uttarakhand requested to keep him under strict surveillance and maintain watch on his activities,” CM added.

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In reply to the Starred question, Chief Minister quoted the Goa police report of having found data on making bombs, explosives, raw materials for explosives such as Uranium, Thorium, Plutonium & Urea from Sameer’s belongings. “Similarly extensive blasphemous literature on all religions was found,” he added.

Arrested for moving suspiciously at Vasco railway station on February 1, Sameer Sardana, son of Major General (retired) K N Sardana was nabbed by Goa ATS and later produced before the local court. At the time of his arrest among Sameer’s possession were 06 Passports, 23 SIM cards, 04 mobile phones was found, which hardened ATS’s suspicion on him.

The Special Branch of the Goa police had termed Sameer to be ‘extremely radicalized and a hardened individual’ having studied about mind control. “He is not revealing anything on his own and has been found uncooperative with the investigating agencies,” the agency had deposed in its submission at JMFC Vasco. Subsequently after spending 11 days under custody Sameer was released on conditional bail.

Meanwhile Goa police earlier told The Indian Express that they are still awaiting for the report on the electronic gadgets that has been sent to Hyderabad for analysis. “We have not yet filed the closure. The case is very much open and the investigation will continue as per the findings,” a senior police official said.

On the other hand Sameer’s Advocate SN Joshi few days earlier told The Indian Express that they are likely to take legal action against the state police officials for illegal detention. “They detained him for nearly 24 hours, they should have released him the moment they realized that they had no material evidence against him. Yet my client was unnecessarily detained, it seemed as though the officials had some sort of vendetta against Sameer. I am in discussion with my client and we are open to all legal options, including filing defamation charges against officials for selectively releasing his personal details such as number of passports and sim cards, just so that they can build public false opinion against his release,” Joshi said.