Malegaon terror cases: System that keeps failing |
The discharge of the last four accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case by the Bombay High Court is a scathing indictment of a broken process. Nearly two decades after four blasts killed 31 people and injured over 300, it is clear that investigative agencies, state and central, — the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), CBI and NIA — have failed to deliver justice or to provide even a modicum of closure to the families of the victims. Manohar Narwaria, Rajendra Chaudhary, Dhan Singh and Lokesh Sharma are not the only accused to be let off in a case in which members of Hindu extremist groups were under the investigative scanner. Last year, former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col........