After naming Hindutva leader Swami Aseemanand and others in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to include top RSS functionary Indresh Kumar in its supplementary charge sheet of the case, which claimed 68 lives.

According to sources in NIA, the agency is gathering evidences against some RSS leaders including Indresh Kumar, a top most member of the RSS’s central working committee for the past five years. His role was earlier cropped up during Ajmer Dargah blast case and was also named by Rajasthan Anti Terrorist Squad chargesheet.

“We are gathering evidences against Indresh, as he played a key role in arranging finances for terror attack on Samjhuata Express. His name might figure in the supplementary chargesheet, which we will file very soon in this case. Our investigation is not over yet,” said a senior ministry of home affairs official.

Sources further added that one of the accused in the Sunil Joshi (key accused in Samjhuata blast case, who is dead) murder case, arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police, had told investigators that some RSS leaders including Indresh Kumar had provided Rs70,000 to a group to carry out operation to explode the Pakistan-bound train.

When contacted by DNA, Indresh Kumar refuted all allegations. He said, “Government is telling a bunch of lies in the court of law. It’s an effort to defame organisation like RSS.”’

“It seems that Indian government is getting orders from Pakistan. Our investigating agencies have given clean chit to Pakistan. And now, they are targetting our own people. First, they will hand over Swamiji (Aseemanand) and then I will be given to the Pakistan.”’ Indresh added.

CBI has also grilled Indresh Kumar in December last year in connection with Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in 2007 that left nine persons dead and 70 injured.

The CBI on December 18, 2010 had filed a chargesheet in the case in a court in Hyderabad against Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, a member of radical Hindu outfit Abhinav Bharat, who were also allegedly involved in the Ajmer blast the same year, accusing them of murder and other offences.