MUMBAI, Aug. 2 -- A day after a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court acquitted former BJP MP Pragya Thakur, Army officer Lt Col Prakash Purohit and five others in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, a retired police officer stirred fresh controversy, claiming former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh had asked him to arrest Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat while investigation was underway, to bolster the "saffron terror" narrative. Singh, who was then an additional commissioner of police with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which was investigating the case, denied the charge and said the officer, Mehboob Mujawar, was never a part of the ATS. On Friday, speaking on the phone from his residence i...