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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Facts Unlimited" |
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11 Sep 2006 11:46:55 PM |
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Hindu fundamentalist terrorists spared involvement in terrorist bombing |
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\09\12\story_12-9-2006_pg4_9
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Probe into Indian bombings evades evidence of Hindu involvement
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: While the intelligence agencies are once again suspecting
outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), atleast three
senior Indian ministers have shown discontent at the investigations of
the Malegaon bombing.
Sources said that senior ministers Arjun Singh, Prof Saifuddin Soz and
AR Antullay were perturbed at the pace of investigations into the
Nanded (Maharashtra) incident at the recent Cabinet and Congress
Working Committee (CWC). They demanded a thorough investigations to
unearth any link between the Nanded incident and the blasts in Mumbai
and Malegaon. A bomb factory was found at the house of an ultra-Hindu
nationalist Rashtriya Sawayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist last April
Civil rights groups have also alleged that threats from the BJP and the
Shiv Sena leaders have caused security agencies to shut inquiry into
Nanded incident, where Bajrang Dal activists were found running a
bomb-making unit with the intent of fomenting communal mayhem. The
police also found Muslim dresses, prayer cloth, caps, fake beards and
moustaches in the house.
According to a report prepared by a team of civil rights activists
including a former judge of Mumbai High Court, the explosion took place
at around midnight on April 6 in the middle-class locality of
Patbandhare Nagar in Taroda gram panchayat at the residence of
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker LG Rajkondawar, a retired
irrigation engineer. It killed 29-year-old Naresh Rajkondawar and
31-year-old Himanshu Venkatesh Panse. The deceased and the injured were
all RSS activists. All 14 persons arrested in the case were later
released on bail.
The report says that the incident points to a larger plot by the RSS to
disrupt communal harmony and fan anti-Muslim feelings. The RSS leaders
have, however, dismissed the allegations.
"The bomb-making in the house of an RSS sympathiser and the blast
points to the involvement of Bajrang Dal activists, the militant wing
of the RSS. The incident needs to be investigated by the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI)," says the report prepared by the Peoples
Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL). The police so far have been silent on
the motive behind the bomb-making or whether the perpetrators were part
of a bigger setup.
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