[Reader-list] Hindu group behind Malegaon blast: Police

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

I never take anything that the police anywhere says without a pinch  
of salt. Regardless of  whether the issue is political or a  
straightforward criminal matter, and regardless of the purported  
identity of the accused. I find police handouts indigestible without  
salt.

best

Shuddha


On 23-Oct-08, at 7:21 PM, taraprakash wrote:

> Now, after the police in India has lost so much of its credibility,  
> should
> we take this claim with a pinch of salt?
>
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>> Hindu group behind Malegaon blast: Police
>>
>> Smita Nair Posted: Oct 23, 2008 at 1307 hrs IST
>> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hindu-group-behind-malegaon- 
>> modasa-blasts/376802/
>>
>> Mumbai, October 22 : The Maharashtra police are said to have cracked
>> the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa town in
>> neighbouring Gujarat saying these were allegedly carried out by the
>> Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based Hindu extremist group known to
>> have links to the BJP's student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
>> Parishad (ABVP). The key suspects are being questioned, top
>> Maharashtra Police sources have told The Indian Express.
>>
>> Five Muslims were killed in a powerful blast in the communally
>> sensitive textile town of Malegaon in Maharashtra and one Muslim boy
>> was killed in the explosion in Modasa in Sabarkantha district.
>>
>> Both bombs were placed on motorcycles parked in crowded areas days
>> before Eid and set off after Muslims had broken their Ramzan fast  
>> on a
>> Monday evening.
>>
>> The BJP had condemned both the blasts. Investigators initially
>> suspected Islamist groups such as SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen to be
>> behind the near-simultaneous attacks — the first blast was at  
>> Modasa
>> at 9.26 pm, the second minutes later in Malegaon — as they came  
>> in the
>> aftermath of blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
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