well i expect a general secretary of ruling party to be in touch with wats happenin in the country. not sure how it works in india.
Well! See what happened to the President of the same party when he made similar allegations some 10 years ago. He had to finally issue a grovelling apology. So much for their credibility !
Kesri to face trial in RSS defamation case
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, OCT 15: A city court today framed charges against former Congress president Sitaram Kesri for allegedly defaming the RSS by holding the Hindu organisation responsible for last year's Coimbatore bomb blasts in which over 60 people were killed.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) R K Gauba, who also dismissed Kesri's application for discharge, fixed January 17 and 18 next year for commencement of trial in the case after the former Congress chief pleaded `not guilty'.
`These allegations coming from the mouth of the leader of the oldest political party of the country are capable of being understood in a defamatory manner only...' Gauba said, quoting his predecessor Prem Kumar's April 1998 order summoning Kesri in the case.
Kesri had sought his discharge in the case in July, saying he had made the alleged defamatory statement against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh `in good faith and for the protection of public good', and requested the court to recall the summons.
The RSS had dragged Kesri andtwo newspapers - the Times of India and the Nav Bharat Times - to court in April last year for allegedly defaming the organisation by holding it responsible for the Coimbatore bomb blasts during last year's Lok Sabha poll campaign.
The court asked Kesri to face trial and prove himself innocent.
`The accused (Kesri)... while seeking dropping of these proceedings is not restraining himself to the claim of a bonafide belief in the truth of his utterances, but has rather chosen to reiterate and re-assert those allegations against the complainant (RSS) which formed part of his impugned statement leading to his summoning.
"He has chosen the path of justifying his assertion not on mere `belief' but on `truth' of the allegation levelled by him. This gives rise to various questions which would need trial," the court observed.
On September 14, RSS had withdrawn the case against the Times of India and the Nav Bharat Times following publication of correction/clarification by thenewspapers in their September 11 editions published from the capital.
The CMM had separated Kesri's trial from that of the two newspapers following a Delhi high court order to this effect early this year.
Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
lets wait for the final report if it ever comes out.
That would be an excellent idea especially since in any case you are basing your entire suspicion on the basis of the statements of Indian investigators and now of Indian politicians. It was Indian investigators who after all arrested Col.Purohit and no one in the government or the army stopped them. There is no reason to believe that a congress government will support Hindu organisations whatsoever.
yup. quite different from wat ground investigation is pointing towards.
Why would the Americans want to and what would they gain from making an accusations against LeT members and that too in the U.N.?
I make no bones of the fact that Hindu organisations that indulge in terror deserve the same treatment that terrorists belonging to any other religion should get. If in the end, Hindu terrorists are indeed implicated in the Samjautha blasts they will get no sympathy from me. Col.Purohit, even if he was not involved in this train blast was involved in a terrorist attack (in Malegaon) and he deserves to get exemplary punishment for it.
No one is supporting that scumbag.
It's just that self serving members of the Congress or the communists are regarded with suspicion and no great sanctity is attached to their words.
