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Goa
Blast Case: Defence lawyer questions role of newspaper 'close to'
Congress
Friday, September 17, 2010 08:19:18 AM,
IANS
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Panaji:
A newspaper "close" to the Congress party is trying to
influence the Goa blast trial in which 11 people linked to right
wing Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha were investigated, a local court
was told Thursday.
Defence advocate Sanjiv Punalekar in a written submission told the
Sessions Court in Margao that Raju Nayak, resident editor of the
Goa edition of Lokmat, a Marathi newspaper, and a local Congress
worker Vasant Bhat "had consciously and willfully engaged in acts
which would create an atmosphere prejudicing the trial against the
accused".
While Nayak has once contested legislative assembly elections on a
Congress ticket in the past, Bhat is a priest at a temple located
about half a kilometre away from the Sanatan Sanstha (SS) ashram
located at Ramnathi, 25 km from Panaji.
Two members of the SS were killed in December 2009 while ferrying
the improvised explosive device (IED) which exploded.
Punalekar said in his petition that 'Lokmat' was owned by persons
who are active in politics and supporters of the Congress party
and that Bhat was an active supporter of the Congress.
"These two persons aim at conducting a media trial so that the
attention of media is diverted from anti-Hindu strategies adopted
by Congress party," Punalekar's petition has said.
"The criticism by these two persons of the advocate of the accused
- who is an officer of the Court - aims at interfering with
judicial proceedings and obstruct administration of justice," the
petition further states.
"These two individuals are also aggrieved by the fact that an
advocate is representing the accused and would assist the Court in
exposing the truth which they apprehend would be detrimental to
their personal interests," the petition concludes.
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