After the acquittal of Swami Aseemananda – one of the prime accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case of 2007 – by the Panchkula special court on Wednesday, his mother has told the media that no one can call her a “terrorist’s mother” anymore.
Swami Aseemananda, also known by the names of Nabakumar, Jiten Chatterjee and Omkarnath – hails from the village of Kamarpukur in Hooghly district of West Bengal, about 100 km from Kolkata.
Speaking to the media, his mother said that the family can now return to “normal life” and that she would no longer be called the mother of a “Hindu terrorist”, it was reported by The Economic Times.
Adding that the family had not celebrated any festival in the last ten years since her son had been arrested, the 92-year old mother of Swami Assemananda said that they would now celebrate Diwali festival after his acquittal.
Several leaders from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected with the family after the news of the acquittal came in. A “yatra” or procession will be taken out on his return, said a person close to the family.
