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Moily for
CBI probe into Karnataka church attacks
Saturday January 29, 2011 07:48:57 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Union Law
Minister M. Veerappa Moily Saturday said the judicial panel, which
absolved the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu groups of
attacks on churches in Karnataka, had suppressed the truth.
"Only a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will
bring out the truth," he told reporters here a day after the
justice B.S. Somashekara enquiry commission said the BJP, its
government and Sangh Parivar had no hand in the series of attacks
on churches in the state in 2008.
A CBI probe was necessary because "truth should not be
suppressed", Moily said.
He demanded that the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led state government should
immediately seek a CBI probe into the attacks that took place in
several districts, allegedly because of conversion activity by
some Christian groups and circulation of literature "insulting"
Hindu gods.
"Merely because a commission has given its report, truth cannot be
suppressed. It should be brought out. The state government should
be sincere in these matters," Moily asserted.
The interim report of the Somashekara commission, given in
February last year, had named Bajrang Dal as one of the groups
behind the attacks. But there was no mention of it in the final
report, the law minister noted.
"Both interim and final report of any panel should read together,"
Moily said.
The commission said in its final report that "there is no basis to
the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians,
the BJP, mainstream Sangh Parivar and the state government
directly or indirectly, are involved in the attacks."
It said: "The true Hindus have no role to play in any attack
directly or indirectly, but the attacks are indulged in by
misguided fundamentalist miscreants of defined or undefined groups
or organisations."
The panel also absolved the police of collusion.
However, in its report of February 2010 the panel had said that
"strong impression is created that the members belonging to
Bajarang Dal, Sri Rama Sene, and the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad)
etc. are mainly responsible for attacking churches or places of
worship, mainly in Mangalore and South Canara (Dakshina Kannada)
districts spreading to other districts and other parts of the
state."
While the BJP has welcomed the panel's conclusions, the Congress
and the Janata Dal-Secular have attacked it saying 'the government
has got what it wanted."
The Chrisitian community leaders have also expressed anguish over
the panel's failure to name the groups behind the attacks.
The minority wing of the JDS Saturday staged a demonstration in
Bangalore against the report and demanded that the government
should not accept it.
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