Attacking the BJP for double speak over Babri mosque demolition, AAP said that its leaders facing charges in the case have said one thing in public and completely contradicted themselves in the court.
Attacking the BJP for double speak over Babri mosque demolition, AAP today said that its leaders facing charges in the case have said one thing in public and completely contradicted themselves in the court.
“After 1992, the successive Congress-led and BJP-led governments for obvious reasons have attempted to brush the whole conspiracy under the carpet”, AAP said in a statement.
“Babri Masjid demolition is a glaring example of the BJP doublespeak. Its leaders who had a direct hand in the demolition and are facing charges in a criminal trial, have said one thing in their public statements and completely contradicted themselves in the court,” it said.
A news portal, which carried out a sting, claimed that the The 1992 Babri Mosque demolition was an “act of planned sabotage” and not by frenzied mob of Hindu outfits. The “confessions” named BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and others for “secretly planning” out the demolition in an elaborate way.
The party said that sting operation confirmed the role of BJP and Sangh Parivar in Babri demolition.
“The sting operation has confirmed the widespread belief that the demolition was a pre-planned conspiracy by the various affiliates of the Sangh Parivar and top BJP leadership had a direct role in the entire incident,” the statement added.
AAP also attacked the Congress for allegedly helping the Sangh Parivar in the act.
“It also nails the Congress, whose central government led by the then Prime Minister the late PV Narasimha Rao, was not only aware about the conspiracy to demolish the Mosque, but also appears to have helped the Sangh parivar in its nefarious designs by abetting the unpardonable crime.
“The Congress, which has always avoided answering its role in the demolition, should come out clean on the role of its central government in 1992,” the statement added.

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Friday attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the issue of women’s safety in the country.

Raking up the Dec 16 gang-rape in Delhi, Modi said the Congress has done nothing to ensure women’s safety and Sonia Gandhi, despite being a women, is misleading other women.

“You have announced Rs 1,000 crore as the Nirbhaya fund and said that this money will be used for the daughters of this country. Despite announcing the fund, you did not spend even a single rupee from it,” Modi said at a rally in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district.

Modi said promises made by the Congress about women’s safety do not look good.

“There is not even a single BJP-ruled state among the top 10 states where the maximum atrocities against women happened,” said Modi.

He also brought up the issue of a Congress women party worker in Maharashtra’s Latur city, who recently went missing. She was later found dead and a party member was arrested in this case, said Modi.

“If members of your own party are not safe, how will you ensure the safety of this country,” Modi asked.

The Bombay High Court refused to grant bail on medical grounds, to 2008 Malegaon bomb blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who has been in custody for five and a half years in connection with her role as a conspirator in the crime.

A division bench dismissed an appeal filed by her against a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court order, refusing bail to her on medical grounds.

“Taking into consideration, the material available on record, it cannot be said that the appellant is not guilty of the offence for which she is charged. The material clearly indicates that the appellant is a conspirator and had actively helped the co-accused by providing a motorcycle for explosion of a bomb at Malegaon,” a bench headed by Justice P V Hardas said.

“We are of the considered opinion that a strong prima facie case against the appellant exists, on the basis of material available on record and the same is sufficient to deny bail to her,” the bench said.
The judges said that they did not find the impugned order passed by the Special MCOCA Court judge on September 25, 2012, to suffer from any legal infirmity.
Senior Counsel U A Lalit argued that the appellant suffers from serious ailments and produced before the court a medical report dated February 4, 2014, issued by the Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Bhopal.

National Investigating Agency Counsel Rohini Salian submitted that government hospitals were well equipped to provide all sorts of medical help to the appellant and that even at this juncture, the Sadhvi is being provided with the best medical facilities available in government hospitals.

“Therefore we see no reason to accede to the request of the learned senior counsel, that on the ground of ill health or for want of medical treatment, the appellant needs to be released on bail,” the judges said.

Union Minister of State for Shipping and Telcom Milind Deora and senior BJP leader Kirit Somaiya filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Deora is seeking a third term from Mumbai South parliamentary constituency while Somaiya, who earlier represented the Mumbai North East seat, is the BJP candidate in fray and will try to wrest the seat back from NCP.

Bala Nandgaonkar of MNS, who finished second in the 2009 polls against Deora, also filed his papers.

Four persons, including a father-son duo, were arrested for allegedly buying stolen gold jewellery and Rs. 3.50 lakh cash and ornaments worth Rs. 6,17,500 were seized from them, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the crime branch of Thane police nabbed two persons from a utensils shop in Ambernath when they were purchasing stolen jewellery from a woman on April 1, Ulhasnagar crime unit senior inspector Uttam Tangade said.

However, the woman fled from the spot leaving Rs 3.5 lakh cash which was seized by police, he said.

When the police questioned the nabbed father-son duo, Ramesh Oswal and Subham Oswal, they revealed that the woman had brought some stolen jewellery to them and had come to collect money for the same.

Police later raided their premises and seized jewellery worth 90 gm, including a gold necklace, chain and ‘mangalsutra’.

During interrogation, the duo also informed that they had sold some stolen jewellery to two other persons – Deepak and Kaka- who were also arrested and ornaments weighing 186 gms were recovered from them.

Police said Ramesh was earlier also arrested in connection with a similar crime at Mira Road in Thane.

The accused woman, identified as Sangeeta Sudharshan Kucchi, used to frequent jewellery shops and lift ornaments from there. She would then sell it to shopkeepers, they said.

A number of offences have been registered against her in Navi Mumbai and Thane, police said, adding that a search was on to nab her.