NIA to quiz associate of slain RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi

Bhopal, Aug 5 (PTI) The National Investigation Agency
(NIA) of India has summoned Shivam Dhakad, an associate of
murdered former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak,
Sunil Joshi to New Delhi for questioning.
A team of the NIA is currently probing the killing of
Joshi and Shivam has been summoned in this connection,
officials said.
Shivam, who is a resident of Dewas in Indian state of
Madhya Pradesh was in jail from where he was recently released
on bail. He is also charged with the murder of a sarpanch Kok
Singh Solanki.
It is learnt that Shivam was close to Joshi and the two
are said to have met the accused in Ajmer, Samjhauta Express
and Hyderabad blasts.
Joshi, a suspect in the Samjhauta Express blast case,
was shot dead in Dewas in Madhya Pradesh on December 29, 2007.
Sixty-eight people were killed when bombs went off in
two coaches of Samjhauta Express, running between Delhi and
Lahore, around midnight on February 18, 2007, at Diwana near
Panipat, 80 kms north of Delhi. PTI AS