By TCN News,
Mumbai: Several human rights groups like Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), Mumbai, Communalism Combat and Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD) while strongly condemning the Delhi High Court blast termed it an attempt to widen communal divide in the country and to endanger national unity.
“The obvious intention of the blast outside the Delhi High Court on 7th Sept. was to widen the communal divide, spread mutual suspicion and hatred between communities and thus endanger national unity. There can be no doubt that the repeated terrorist attacks in one or another part of the country in recent years are not just incidents of mindless violence but part of a sinister design” said Teesta Setalvad,General Secretary of CJP.
She said that the blast has taken the lives of poor litigants who around that time thronged in large numbers to access the portals of justice. “We urge authorities to ensure just and equitable compensation and reparation for the victims of this irreparable loss” she said.
“The media should express adequate caution, not to make speculative and emotion-driven assumptions and should operate professionally, respecting also the privacy of the unfortunate individuals injured in the incident” she advised.
“Investigations into different incidents of terror attacks in recent years have clearly revealed that extremism is not the monopoly of a particular religion. The mass murderers may claim to act in the name of this or that faith but they share a common objective that is bleeding India by spreading communal discord through wanton acts of violence against innocent citizens” she added.