New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday accused the ruling BJP at the centre for not only sabotaging the processes of justice but also taking a sectarian view on fighting terror, regarding special public prosecutor Rohini Salian`s startling recent statement that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had asked her to go `soft` in the 2008 Malegaon case after the NDA Government came to power.
"Apart from sabotaging the processes of justice, what is the message which you are giving? You are differentiating between different types of terror. Terror is terror regardless of the religion you claim to be representing. So if a group is being accused of being responsible for some of the worst terrorist attacks in India: Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon leaving more than a 100 people killed in these attacks and if today the government`s message is to go soft on such cases, that means that you are taking a very sectarian view and you are in fact not fighting terror but encouraging or conniving with terror by trying to save those who are the accused," CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat said.
Karat said that the NIA was directly intervening on a political message and added that the Indian Government trying to brush aside the matter will have serious international implications.
"It is clear that the NIA is directly intervening on a political message that the case should be either scuttled or sabotaged or go soft on it. This is the special public prosecutor statement and we believe her," she said.
"What is going to be the international impact of this? Once it is out in the Indian papers, everybody across the world will learn about this that in such a critical case as Malegaon, the NIA is being accused from a very reliable person of trying to go soft on the case. So when you talk about government supporting terrorists in other states such as Pakistan, while here in India when the NIA is being accused, you take no action and you just brush it aside. I think it has serious implications," she added.
Salian has not revealed the name of the NIA officer who suggested to her to go `soft` in the Malegaon blast case.
The powerful blast at Malegaon`s Bhikku Chowk on Navratri eve on September 29, 2008, claimed six lives and left 101 injured.
It is said to be engineered by Hindu fundamentalists.It emerged during the probe that the accused are associated with Abhinav Bharat.
The 13 accused had been booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), besides provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
