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NDF denies role in Marad massacre
Kozhikode, July 09: Terming the ongoing crime branch police probe into the May 2 Marad violence that claimed nine lives as `biased`, the Muslim outfit National Development Front today said it had nothing to do with the incident and that the Sangh Parivar forces were engaged in blocking the process of rehabilitation.
Kozhikode, July 09: Terming the ongoing crime branch police probe into the May 2 Marad violence that claimed nine lives as "biased", the Muslim outfit National Development Front today said it had nothing to do with the incident and that the Sangh Parivar forces were engaged in blocking the process of rehabilitation.
"The NDF refutes the charges (as appearing in a section
of the press) by the Crime Branch IG, Mahesh Kumar Singhla
that the front was behind the massacre,” NDF chairman A Syed
said in a statement here.
Asked if the police findings were in the "right direction", he said although some news dailies had published reports of NDF's involvement in the Marad carnage quoting the police official, "the probe is yet to be complete" and therefore it was too premature to comment on them.
However, Syed said, if the police had to blame the NDF "without establishing facts", then it had to be construed as "one-sided" and "biased".
Accusing the UDF government of having failed to initiate steps to carry on the process of rehabilitation, he said "the government should not try to appease the Sangh forces" who were demanding a CBI probe into the issue and opposing rehabilitation.
The NDF would go ahead with its decision to block all roads leading to Marad on July 11 and work out its future course of action at its secretariat meet on the next day, he added.
Bureau Report
Asked if the police findings were in the "right direction", he said although some news dailies had published reports of NDF's involvement in the Marad carnage quoting the police official, "the probe is yet to be complete" and therefore it was too premature to comment on them.
However, Syed said, if the police had to blame the NDF "without establishing facts", then it had to be construed as "one-sided" and "biased".
Accusing the UDF government of having failed to initiate steps to carry on the process of rehabilitation, he said "the government should not try to appease the Sangh forces" who were demanding a CBI probe into the issue and opposing rehabilitation.
The NDF would go ahead with its decision to block all roads leading to Marad on July 11 and work out its future course of action at its secretariat meet on the next day, he added.
Bureau Report