At 6.12 pm on 11 October 2007, an explosion occurred near a courtyard outside the
Dargah of
Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer. Evening prayers had just concluded before the end of the fasting month of
Ramadan and a crowd had gathered outside the shrine to end their
fast. The bomb had been concealed in a
tiffin carrier, which workers typically used to store their lunch. The blast killed 3 people and injured 17 others. Remnants of a mobile phone were retrieved from the site. NIA filed another charge sheet against
Swami Aseemanand, whose confession helped the agency open
Hyderabad's
Mecca Masjid blast and
Malegaon 2006 blast cases, along with Sandeep Dangae, Bhawesh Patel, Mehul, Suresh Bhai, Ramchandra Kalsangra, Sunil Joshi and Bharat Bhai. According to the charge sheet filed,
Swami Aseemanand conceived the plan to avenge Islamic attacks on Hindu temples.
Swami Aseemanand's named the co-founder of the far right Hindu organisation,
Abhinav Bharat,
Prasad Shrikant Purohit and senior
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar among others as co-conspirators. The Swami in his statement also claimed that Sunil Joshi was the operational man and carried out the blast in Ajmer with the help of two Muslim boys from the
Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, who were given to him by Indresh Kumar. ==Conviction==