\nSpecial Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian said the ATS was investigating contents of the laptops.
\nThe revelation once again shows that the trio of Pragnya-Purohit-Pandey mainly hatched the conspiracy, Additional Sessions Special Judge Y.D. Shinde, who presides over the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, was informed.
\nThe MCOCA court sent Pandey to police custody till Dec 1 after the day\u2019s hearing.
\nTalking to journalists, Deputy Commissioner of Police (ATS) Dilip Srirao denied that any of the accused was forced into making statements, and also denied allegations of torture made by some of the accused.
\nSrirao said the ATS has so far not received the narco-analysis test reports of the accused.
\nAn ATS source said the squad \u201cis on the right track and would be in a position to file the chargesheets\u201d against the 11 accused nabbed so far, within the stipulated period.
\nCurrently, two teams of the ATS, one in Pune and another in Nashik, are engaged in vital investigations into the case.
\nPandey was allegedly in the habit of using his laptop, seized when he was arrested in Kanpur Nov 14, to film and record meetings with people including fellow conspirators whom he met before the Malegaon blast.
\nHe also used the laptop to record conversations and video-recorded many of the meetings he held with other conspirators, the source said.
\nSix people were killed in the blast in Malegaon town of Maharashtra on the night of Sep 29.
\nMeanwhile, Purohit was facing more trouble in an unrelated case.
\nThe ATS searched his residence in Pune\u2019s Erandavane area to look for evidence but officials refused to divulge details of the raid or seizure, if any, to the media.
\nIn a Nashik court, giving details of Purohit\u2019s dealings with friend Shirish Datye during his stint in the Deolali Army Cantonment three years ago, government lawyer S.S. Sangle told Judge V.V. Joshi that the army officer took Rs.25,000 from Datye, issued him a false certificate showing he was an ex-army officer and provided him an arms license and a rifle from the army quota. The court remanded Purohit in police custody for three days, brushing aside defence apprehensions of danger to his life in the ATS custody.
\nProsecution told the court that though the license was issued in the name of Datye, who is a resident of Nashik, it bore the address of Purohit\u2019s official residential quarters in Deolali.
\nThe weapon was purchased from the Ambarnath Ordnance Factory after which Purohit trained Datye at firing range, Sangle told the court. The army officer then brought another rifle from Jammu and kept it first with Captain Gaurav Sood in Ahmednagar and then gave it to Datye, prosecution said.
\nDatye, on whose complaint the ATS registered the case against Purohit Nov 16, handed over both weapons to the police.
\nSubmitting to the court the application forms for the licenses, prosecution pointed out that the use of whitener fluid to change the applicant\u2019s address and signature was apparent on them.
\nThe false certificate issued from Purohit\u2019s Deolali cantonment office did not bear any \u2018outward\u2019 number, the court was told.
\nRaising doubts about Purohit\u2019s activities which were not part of his official duty, Sangle sought the army officer\u2019s custody for 14 days.
\n\u201cWhy did Purohit accept money, give the address of his official quarters for issuing arms license to someone else and favour the complainant so much?\u201d the prosecution lawyer asked. She also sought to know why Purohit brought a double-barrel rifle from Jammu from the same forged license.
\nThe army officer was in the ATS custody in Pune till Tuesday in connection with a similar case registered there on the basis of a complaint filed by Shirish Datye\u2019s brother Milind.
\nDefence lawyer Avinash Bhide told the court the two Datye brothers, who are members of Abhinav Bharat, a rightwing Hindutva group co-founded by Purohit, were pressurized by the ATS to file complaints against their friend.
\nPurohit is the first serving army officer to be accused of a role in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"