PFI accuses NIA of shielding anti-national terrorists

Mangaluru, Jun 29: Referring to the revelations of special public prosecutor Rohini Salian that she was asked to go slow against the Hindu extremists accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case, Popular Front Of India Chairman KM Shareef said that NIA, by going such a low level to save a bunch of anti-national elements, is acting as an RSS frontal organization.

In a release issued here he said that the Malegaon blast in 2008 which killed four people and injured another 79 was an incident that exposed the real face of Hidutwa terror in our country. Investigations as usual were quick to name “Islamic terrorism” as responsible for the incident.

Innocent Muslim youth were falsely implicated and tortured by the authorities. However, the probe under late Hemant Karkare, the then ATS Chief exposed a band of Hindutwa extremists and arrested Sadhvi Thakur and others. 12 persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Swami Amritanand, Dayanand Pandey, Major Ramesh Upadhaya and Sri Kant Purohit were arrested.

It was even found that explosives of Indian army were smuggled for the attacks. This followed the shocking revelations of similar Hindutwa organized bomb blasts in various parts of the country which were carried out in the name of mysterious Muslim terrorist groups, he said.

Innocent Muslim youths are still languishing in jails in many of these cases. The latest revelations should be seen under this context. The accusation by Rohini Salian is so serious that it has damaged the credibility of the agency and the cases it is investigating.

KM Shareef demanded direct Supreme Court or the high court monitoring of all cases the NIA is investigating.

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