Modi supporter cum CSDS prof now stands up for Lt. Col Purohit (who was arrested for involvement in Hindutva terror cases)

Why is Army Intelligence Officer Lt Col Purohit in Jail for Six Years without Trial?
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by Madhu Purnima Kishwar

Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit has been in jail as an under-trial for over five years under the stringent MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act) for the alleged crime of having masterminded the Malegaon bomb blasts on 29 September 2008. It had led to seven deaths and several injured. Malegaon is a communally sensitive textile producing town in Nashik district of Maharashtra. As per 2011 Census, the population of Malegaon is 471,006. Muslims comprise nearly half of its population concentrated mostly in the eastern part of the city. By all accounts, it has been a communally charged and divided town for some decades now.

The investigation of these blasts was initially handled by the Maharashtra ATS (Anti-Terrorism Squad). This notorious agency officially announced the arrest of Purohit on 5 November 2008 but he was actually abducted and brought to the illegal custody of ATS on 29 October 2008 by a fellow officer of Indian Army, Col. R.K. Shrivastav. However, despite the NIA (National Investigation Agency) taking over the Malegaon blast case for investigation in April 2011, till date no charge sheet has been filed by the NIA against Purohit.

If India’s human rights community had not become addicted to the advantages that come with playing partisan politics, Lt. Col. Purohit would not be languishing in jail today without trial. His lawless incarceration, brutal torture and denial of due process would have bothered our human rights community had they developed proper protocols for adopting cases of rights abuse.

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