By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: Assam United Democratic Front chief and Member of Lok Sabha Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has expressed concern over a Mumbai special court’s decision to drop the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) against 11 accused including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Conl. Purohit in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.
Maulana Ajmal has urged the Maharashtra government to challenge this verdict in Supreme Court with strong evidences so that suspicions created by this judgment regarding the sincerity of the state government in this terror case involving Hindutva extremists could be removed.
Criticizing the present ATS chief he said that former ATS chief Hemant Karkare, for the first time, unveiled terrorist elements among Hindu organizations and brought out a new face of terrorists before the world by an impartial investigation in Malegaon and other bomb blast cases. But unfortunately new ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi washed off all efforts of slain Hemant Karkare and paved the way for dropping MCOCA from all 11 accused in 2008 Malegaon blast case.
“Before the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and her associates in Malegaon blast, several Muslim youths were arrested in connection with other cases and charged with MCOCA without sufficient proof” said Maulana Ajmal adding that an appeal to drop MCOCA from these innocents has been filed in Supreme Court three years ago but they are yet to get any verdict. But surprisingly besides substantial proof against the accused in 2008 Malegaon blast case only within 10 months MCOCA has been dropped from them. What kind of justice is this?” He asked.
“We are failed to understand court’s argument that none of them is part of an organized crime syndicate. On this criteria all accused of minority community should have been released long ago but it did not happen so far. Why this double-standard of justice?, he questioned. “To drop MCOCA from Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and her co-accused is not only a challenge for the democracy but also a danger to security of the country” he added.
Maulana Abdur Rashid, the general secretary of Jamiat Ulema Assam, believes that the verdict came out under the instruction of Mharashtra government led by Congress and NCP only to collect Hindu votes before the assembly election as in 2005 Congress-led Assam government firstly got IMDT Act repealed by Supreme Court and later to please Muslims it appealed against the verdict with insufficient proof which was rejected.
Maulana Badruddin Ajmal demanded both Central as well as Maharashtra governments to re-enquire the Malegaon blast case along with all other terror incidents occurred in the country by CBI or any independent and impartial agency to punish the real culprits who have been trying to transfer this democratic and secular India into a Hindu Rashtra.