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BJP slams NHRC for transfer of riot cases
New Delhi, Aug 01: Attacking the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for moving the Supreme Court for a retrial in the Best Bakery and four other cases, BJP today said that it was perceived as `anti-Hindu` and a danger to the `federal` set up.
New Delhi, Aug 01: Attacking the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for moving the Supreme Court for a retrial in the Best Bakery and four other cases, BJP today said that it was perceived as "anti-Hindu" and a danger to the "federal" set up.
"What the NHRC has done is not proper and we hope that Central Government takes the necessary action. Filing the SLP in the Supreme Court is unprecedented and was a danger to the federal structure of the country," BJP spokesman V K Malhotra said.
He said that this would open a "pandora's box" and that if cases were taken outside the state where the incident has occurred was not proper. "The perception outside would be that NHRC is anti-Hindu," he added.
Malhotra said that NHRC chairman J S Anand, when he was the Supreme Court chief justice, had made an observation which was contrary to what the nhrc was now doing.
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He said that this would open a "pandora's box" and that if cases were taken outside the state where the incident has occurred was not proper. "The perception outside would be that NHRC is anti-Hindu," he added.
Malhotra said that NHRC chairman J S Anand, when he was the Supreme Court chief justice, had made an observation which was contrary to what the nhrc was now doing.
Bureau Report