State revenue minister Narayan Rane’s comment linking the politician-underworld nexus to the 26/11 terror attack might give him a tough time. “We will not let you off easily,” said the Bombay high court on Thursday, while hearing a public interest petition against the statement made at a press conference last December.
The Centre, too, will have to explain the action it has taken on the NN Vohra committee’s report submitted in October 1993 after the communal riots and bomb blasts.
A division bench of justice JN Patel and justice Amjad Sayed issued a notice to the Centre asking it to file a reply in six weeks. The court asked the government to make the Vohra Committee report public soon. “When will the people come to know? It is like the Liberhan report,” justice Patel said.
“In the past 16 years, the committee has not been able to identify the politicians who are having a nexus with organised-crime syndicates. If they could not do it, they never will be able to do it. R&AW, IB, CBI —- they all know everything but no one dares to name them.”
Justice Patel then questioned Rane’s counsel Rafique Dada if his client knew about the report. Dada said that Rane learnt of the report when he was chief minister
in 1999.At an earlier hearing, the court had directed Shiv Sena leaders to file an affidavit on action taken on the report when they were in power in 1995.
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