The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Travesty of Justice
CPI(M) expresses dismay and deep disappointment over the verdict in the Malegaon Blasts Case. The verdict coming after seventeen years of the incident has acquitted all the accused citing lack of evidence. The blasts had killed six innocent people and injured nearly hundred. It is a travesty of justice that the accused including former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit, then a serving Army officer and others have been acquitted on the pretext of lack of evidence and procedural lapses.
Notably, it is reported that the National Investigation Agency sought commensurate punishment submitting that the conspirators orchestrated the crime to terrorise a section of the Muslim community, disrupt essential services, create communal tensions, and threaten the State’s internal security. It is yet another case of undue delay and eventual denial of justice to the victims of the terrorist act by an extremist Hindutva group.
The accused were patraonised and supported by the RSS-BJP all through. The BJP made Pragya Singh their candidate and got her elected as a MP. The verdict comes a day after the Home Minister Amit Shah made a statement in Parliament that no Hindu can be a terrorist.
In view of the serious nature of the crime, the CPI(M) demands the government to appeal the NIA Court’s decision.