Swami is one of the main conspirators of the bomb blasts in the Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad on May 18 2007.
According to home ministry sources charge sheet has been filed under sections 302,307,326 and 324 r/w 120 (B) IPC, Sections 13, 15 r/w 16,17,18,19 & 23 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (as Amended in 2004) and Sections 3,4, & 5 of Explosive Substances Act 1908 against him for his role in the blasts.
The case was first probed by the Hussaini Alam Police Station in Hyderabad City but seeing the gravity of the cases it was entrusted to the CBI which filed a charge sheet against accused Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, who were arrested and are in judicial custody.
Swami Aseemnand was arrested from Haridwear on November 19, 2010, where he was hiding with a fictitious name ‘Swami Omkaranand”. Later, the Central Government had taken a decision to transfer the case for further investigation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA started further investigation from April, 2011. Swami Aseemanand is currently in Ambala jail. He is also an accused in Samjhauta Express Bomb Blast case of 2007 and Ajmer Dargah blast. In this case two prime accused Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangara are absconding and NIA has declared a reward of Rs. 10 lakhs each for their arrest.