Borivali-Padgha

Borivali-Padgha
village
Borivali-Padgha

Location in Maharashtra, India

Coordinates: 19°22′12″N 73°10′32″E / 19.3700971°N 73.1755871°ECoordinates: 19°22′12″N 73°10′32″E / 19.3700971°N 73.1755871°E
Country  India
State Maharashtra
District Thane
Population
 • Total Approximately 7,000[1]
Languages
 • Official Marathi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 421101
Vehicle registration Thane MH - 04
Literacy 85[2]%
Vidhan Sabha constituency Bhiwandi (Gramin)
Borivali-Padgha
Mumbai
Borivali-Padgha and Mumbai shown in the map of Maharashtra.

Borivali-Padgha, (Padgha also spelt Padghe), are twin villages in Bhiwandi taluka of Thane a district in Maharashtra an Indian state.[1][3] The terminus station of the eponymous Chandrapur–Padghe HVDC transmission system is located there.[4]

Borivali-Padgha are located 90 km from Mumbai and 15 km from the textile manufacturing town of Bhiwandi, on the Mumbai-Agra national highway number 3. The villages are surrounded by the jungles on the slopes of the Mahuli hills. The villages have a population of 7000, 95 percent of whom are Konkani Muslims.[1][5]

According to a 2001 Times of India news report, Students Islamic Movement of India had for 20 years a powerful operational setup in Padgha, with an office and library with a purpose of being used to recruit activists from all over India, who would then operate from Mumbai.[6] This office was sealed in 2001.[2] Five[7] of those accused to have participated in the conspiracy that lead to the 2003 Mumbai train bombing and two other blasts in Vile Parle and Mumbai Central areas of Mumbai including the prime accused Saquib Nachan[8] belong to Padgha.[2] Majbool Kamal Khan, of Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh a Karate black belt, who is accused to have assembled explosive devices for the blasts is alleged to have received training in Padgha.[9] Saquib Nachan had in an plea application to a POTA court expressed his desire to provide the land he owned in Padgha to bury the bodies of attackers killed by Indian security personnel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Nachan had also offered to perform namaz-e-janaz. The court ruled rejecting the application declaring it beyond its jurisdiction to allow so.[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rangnekar, Prashant (2008-08-04). "For some yrs now, these villages have learnt to live under intelligence scanner". The Indian Express. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kolhatkar, Neeta (2008-08-10). "Village near city smarts under its terror tag". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Terrorism in India. Gyan Publishing House. p. 148. ISBN 978-81-7835-747-8. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Adhikari, T., Isacsson, G., Ambekar, V.D., The Chandrapur-Padghe HVDC Bipole Transmission, CIGRÉ Symposium on HVDC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 1999.
  5. ↑ Pawar, Yogesh (2011-08-27). "Teeja tera rang thha main toh...". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Khomne, Ranjit (2001-10-08). "SIMI still active in Maharashtra". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Wajihuddin, Mohammed; Pradeep Gupta. "Mulund train blast accused Nachan gets bail". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Holla, Anand (2009-09-07). "Where are my documents?". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  9. ↑ "Key accused arrested seven years after Mulund train blast". Mumbai Mirror. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  10. ↑ Rangnekar, Prashant (2008-12-28). "Mulund blast accused wants to bury terrorists". The Indian Express. Retrieved 13 March 2013.