Having decided to defend the Malegaon blast accused Pragya Thakur, the BJP on Monday expressed doubts about the genuineness of the case against her.
NEW DELHI: Having decided to defend the Malegaon blast accused Pragya Thakur, the BJP on Monday expressed doubts about the genuineness of the case against her.
Pointing out that the Mumbai ATS has not been able to produce any consequential evidence against Pragya, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said the entire handling of the case raised some important questions which, unless “satisfactorily explained at the earliest”, would make it clear that “the entire present investigation is lacking in fairness, transparency and may suffer the taint of a sponsored investigation”.
Sources said the party was also providing Pragya legal assistance and “it has received tremendous response” from party cadres and sympathisers who were offering money for lawyers’ fees. There were demands that the Sadhvi be provided the best lawyer to argue her case.
Prasad clarified that the party remained opposed to a state institution spending public money to provide legal assistance to the accused in a crime: “We would oppose Indore University providing assistance to ABVP workers accused in Professor Sabharwal’s murder case,” he said. He said the party had criticised Jamia University vice-chancellor Mushirul Hassan because he was offering legal assistance to the accused with public money.
On the case against Pragya, Prasad said, “There ought not to be any sponsored investigation.” He said even after so many days after Pragya Thakur has been in the custody of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Mumbai, no evidence has come showing the complicity of Pragya Thakur in the Malegaon Blasts of 2008. “Media has widely reported that nothing emerged against her even in the polygraphy test, brain-mapping tests and lie-detector tests,” he added.
“If there is any evidence action must be taken and law should take its course. The BJP has been clearly of the view that terrorism needs to be dealt with firmly and that terrorists have got no religion,” Prasad said.
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