Maharashtra Police investigators found that Kondwar and Phanse were the key figures in the April 2006 bombing of a mosque at Parbhani, in which 25 people were injured. Bajrang Dal operatives linked to the Nanded terror cell, investigators believe, also carried out the bombing of mosques at Purna and Jalna in April 2003. Eighteen people sustained injuries in these twin attacks.What most disturbed the Maharashtra Police about the Nanded explosion, though, was that it demonstrated the Bajrang Dal's growing bomb-making capabilities. In an interview given to the magazine Communalism Combat earlier this year, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad Joint Commissioner of Police K.P. Raghuvanshi candidly admitted that the Nanded incident could have "frightening repercussions". Raghuvanshi noted acidly that the "bombs were not being manufactured for a puja".Despite police concerns the Maharashtra government has been reluctant to take the Bajrang Dal head on, fearful of providing political capital to Hindu fundamentalist organisations such as the Shiv Sena. The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government has refused to consider proscribing the Bajrang Dal. Some 30 Hindu fundamentalist suspects were briefly detained in Malegaon, but no raids have been carried out at the offices or the homes of key leaders.
