Purohit to Manohar Parrikar: Restore my honour

Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, one of the main accused in the Samjhauta and Malegaon blasts cases, has written to defence minister Manohar Parrikar requesting “restoration of his honour”.

In his letter dated April 4, Purohit claims he has been falsely implicated in the case and has been behind bars for more than seven years now.

“I have been robbed of honour, dignity and rank and punished for serving the nation,” he wrote.

Purohit claimed he had infiltrated groups like Simi and Naxals as a military intelligence operative and added that he had shared every detail of his operation with his seniors.

This is not the first time that Purohit has written to Mr Parrikar. In November 2015, he had written to him requesting copies of the court of inquiry against him by the Army. He finally got copies of the CoI after court intervention.

“It remains a matter of fact, which one may care to pursue from the CoI papers, now with the sessions court in Mumbai, that as many as 14 reports were initiated by me during my tenure in Maharashtra after successfully infiltrating Simi, IM and Naxals operating in Northern Maharashtra,” he said. In 2014, Purohit had written a similar letter to then home minister Sushilkumar Shinde.