Fast-track cases involving Hindutva terror groups: CPI(M)

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Date:12/07/2010

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Fast-track cases involving Hindutva terror groups: CPI(M)

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NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has sought the fast-tracking of all bomb blast cases in which Sangh Parivar activists are suspected to be involved and accused the UPA government of being tardy in probing Hindutva groups' links to terror acts.

Over the past several years, several Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionaries were charged for their involvement in blasts. These instances could no longer be dismissed as individual aberrations.

The recent questioning of some RSS functionaries in Uttar Pradesh on their links to ‘Hindutva' terror groups was a serious development, the CPI(M) said.

In a statement, the party said the hand of ‘Hindutva' terror groups in blasts targeting minorities in at least three incidents was due to the hatred-filled, irrational propaganda and inculcation of rabid anti-minorityism by the RSS. However, the Centre largely acted in a disinterested manner, it alleged.

In 2006, in the context of the Nanded bomb blasts and the blast at the RSS office in Coimbatore, it was later found that they were engineered by RSS workers themselves.

In Parliament, the CPI(M) had demanded a comprehensive inquiry to probe whether there was a wider network in operation. But the government did not act. In contrast to the treatment meted out to Hindutva suspects, police were biased in investigation of blast cases involving Muslims. This was “disturbing,” the CPI(M) said.

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