[Marxistindia] Travesty of Justice

[news from the cpi(m)]

July 31, 2025

Press Statement

 

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.

 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee Office

 

 

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