Maintaining that the government was against any violation of human rights, home minister L K Advani on Thursday said the courts and the government should consider sympathetically the cases pending against security force personnel registered while fighting militancy.
Clarifying that he had never used the word immunity during his recent Punjab statement that had raised a controversy, he said when he had sought considerate view on cases against security personnel who have fought bravely against terrorism there was widespread condemnation.
"I still maintain that a probe should be held to find whether the action taken by the security man was with malafide intention or while performing his duty," he said in his inaugural address at the silver jubilee function of all-India criminology conference.

Stating that during wars army personnel were supposed to fight the enemy and protect the sovereignty of the country, Advani said the security forces were fighting a battle as terrorism was no less than a war.
"Terrorism is a deliberate and a systematic murder of fundamental rights of the civilians," the home minister said quoting the book on terrorism written by former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.

In a veiled attack on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Advani said "our neighbour termed the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir as freedom fighters but nowhere in this world a freedom fighter or a revolutionarist blows a bus carrying non-combatants.
He made it cleat that under POTO no fundamental rights of the citizen would be diluted. Bureau Report