Terrorism has no colour or religion. Yet, the
UPA Government has been trying to prove ever since it came to power in 2004,
that in India ‘Hindu Terrorists are active’. In the Malegaon Blast that took
place in 2006, the Special Task Force of the Mumbai Police had charged Col.
Purohit, Sadhwi Pragya Singh Tahkur and Swami Aseemanand among others for
hatching conspiracy, aiding and abetting the Maelgon Blast. Now the Centre’s
National Investigating Agency – NIA says that there is no concrete evidence
against Aseemanand to link him with the conspiracy of engineering the blast in
Malegon. The NIA holds the similar view on Sadhwi Pragya but it maintains that
she has not faced custodial interrogation. The NIA is waiting for an order from
the court to interrogate her in custody. The question is, will the custodial interrogation
of a frail woman who has renounced the worldly pleasure lead to any headway in
the case? The answer is ‘no’. Many custodial interrogations by the police and
the investigators have resulted in the death of accused majority of them were
innocent and had nothing to do with the crime they allegedly committed.
The UPA Government in its fond hope of
gaining sympathy of the minority community spread the canard of Hindu Terrorism
in India. When such accusations come from the government of the day it is
obvious that the nations hostile to India would attempt to dilute their own act
of exporting terror to India. Pakistan has exploited to the hilt that many acts
of terrors in India were the handy work of Hindus and that India was accusing
Pakistan and the terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahiddin
without any basis. This apart, it gives Pakistan a handle to counter the world
perception that it is the hub of global terrorism.
Kanoon was the first Hindi cinema in the
post talkie films that did not have any song. B R Chopra’s Kanoon released in early 1960s had a
character played by Nana Paleskar( not to be confused by Nana Patekar) who was
sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Later it was proved that he was
innocent. The accused asks, “Who will return my years that I spent in Jail”?
Can
the UPA government return the period of hundreds of innocent people who spent
their life in prison without having committed any crime or can it punish the
police for falsely framing people in crime cases and robbing their life and
livelihood? The answer is a firm ‘NO’.
~ R.K.Sinha
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