Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has voiced concern at the continued detention of Muslims “falsely accused” in bomb blasts cases and urged the Union government to release them without delay, pay them compensation and ensure their rehabilitation.
In a letter to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, she said these people, most of them young men, were in jail in the blast cases of Malegaon (2006 and 2008), Mecca Masjid (2007), the Samjhauta Express (2007) and the Ajmer Sharif (2007).
Ms. Karat said the confessional statement of Aseemanand further exposed the Hindutva groups' “diabolical” role in planning and executing the Ajmer dargah blast. (The Rajasthan ATS took Aseemanand in its custody on Saturday.) Following reports from the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad on the involvement of these groups in the Ajmer Sharif blast, and their links to the other blasts, she raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha, demanding the release of, and compensation to, all those who were wrongly accused in these cases.
“I regret that the government paid no heed to this demand, in spite of the support it received from different quarters of the House. On the contrary, the CBI, which is dealing with some of these cases, continued to ensure that innocent people remained in jail by opposing their bail pleas,” the letter said.
