By TCN News,
Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) deplored at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for reportedly asking senior Public Prosecutor Ms Rohini Salian to “go soft” in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, wherein allegedly Hindu extremists are involved, after the NDA government came to power at the Centre in May 2014.
SDPI national president A Sayeed in a statement said that the entire justice delivery system would collapse if a prosecutor was directed to lose a criminal case. Justice will disappear from the country if a prosecutor is pressurized not to prosecute criminals. It amounts to belittling the administration of justice and it is not permitted in any civilized society, he added.
On Thursday English daily Indian Express published interview excerpts with Advocate Salian in which she alleged that National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer called her at home and told her to go ‘soft’ in the trial proceedings as advised by the higher ups.
However, NIA has today denied allegations made by Salian and said that no “inappropriate” instructions were passed to her through any of its officers.
“NIA completely denies the issuance of inappropriate briefing by any officer of the agency to the special PP or creating impediments in her prosecution work of NIA cases she has been handling,” says NIA statement.
The Malegaon 2008 blasts case was the first of its kind in which Hindutva extremists were accused of orchestrating bomb blasts after slain ATS officer Hemant Karkare arrested Lt. Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and others in October 2008.
Muslim community leaders belonging to different non-governmental organizations have unanimously praised special public prosecutor Rohini Salian for her courageous disclosure that since new government has took over in the centre she has been asked to go ‘soft’ in the trial proceedings of Malegaon 2008 blasts blamed on the Hindu extremists.
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