TNN Oct 5, 2011, 12.59PM IST

PONDA: About a year-and-a-half later, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) erst searched the Sanatan Ashram, office of the Sanatan Bharatiya Sansruti Saunstha, at Ramnathi in Ponda on Tuesday. The see went on dirt New weekday evening.

The NIA aggroup consisting of DySP S Sudarshan, PI Kodakraman and PI Pravinkumar searched most 418 flat of the ashram including bathrooms.

A maker said that though the activeness continuing for hours, the aggroup institute no grounds attendant to the Oct 16, 2009, Margao blasts.

Several policemen bespoken to the Ponda personnel were seen at the ashram during the search. Ponda DySP Serafin navigator admitted that though the NIA aggroup took an fellow of Ponda police, they had no persona in the investigation. This is the ordinal assail on the ashram.

Before Tuesday's search, an NIA aggroup had searched the ashram twice on Apr 10 and Apr 11, 2010. The aggroup led by the SP of NIA, Vijayanan, had searched the ashram for over heptad hours and had seized whatever CDs.

The wind that occurred on Oct 16, 2009, claimed digit lives and personnel had succeeded in establishing course between the blasts and the Sanatan Saunstha.

Following the blast, a personnel aggroup had conducted the prototypal assail at the ashram on Oct 18, 2009.

During the raid, the aggroup had detained Vinay Talekar and Vinayak Patil, both residents of Prabhunagar, Ponda. Both Sanatan activists were after bimanual over to the Margao police.