The RSS finds it “intriguing” that those arrested for having alleged links to “Hindu radicalism” are confessing to terror acts but “convicted militants” like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru are still “tightlipped”, in an apparent reference to the reported confession by Swami Aseemanand, a key accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast to the CBI.
The RSS alleged that the investigating agencies seems to be more interested in bringing the “alleged phrase” (Hindu terror) into common parlance than solve the terror attacks. It has also accused Congress and the media to “work in tandem to popularise the term Hindu terror”.
To support its point that there are no such things called the “Hindu terror” groups, the latest issue of the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser’s editorial says “ There is no need for all this exercise if in reality there existed something as Hindu terror. For, every terror outfit projects an objective as its raison d’etre, this is absolutely essential for it to draw adherents, sympathisers and collect funds even as they operate underground...”
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HC to NIA: Reply on Sadhvi kin
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Jan. 17: After going through the petition of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s brother Ananth Brahmachari, who had accused the National Investigation Agency of torturing and illegally detaining him, Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra of the Delhi high court on Monday sought replies from the Centre and the NIA by April 6. Chetan Sharma, lawyer appearing for Brahmachari, said, his client was served with two notices to appear before the investigating agency on January 5 at two different places, Panchkula and Delhi, on the same date.
Mr Sharma also said his client is based in Mumbai and notices were served by the investigating officer (IO), which is beyond his power.