NIA raids Sanatan Sanstha Headquarters
WEDNESDAY, 05 OCTOBER 2011
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided the right wing Hindu organization Sanatan Sanstha's headquarters located in North Goa's Ponda on Tuesday night. NIA officials raided the residential as well as official quarters of the ashram at Ramnathi, 30 km from here, of the Sanatan Sanstha, whose members have been charge-sheeted for carrying out blasts in Goa as well as several parts of Maharashtra over the last few years.

The raid followed attempts made by the Maharashtra government to ban the Sanatan Sanstha, for the organization’s involvement in various illegal activities which included a bomb blast in a Thane (Maharashtra) cinema hall in 2008 and other blasts in other districts of Maharashtra and Goa.