Farrukhabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the Congress to apologize to the people of the country for conspiring to implicate himself and some other Hindu leaders in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case.
“Today you must have seen a statement of Maharashtra ATS,” the Chief Minister said in his address after inaugurating and laying foundation stone of 174 development projects worth Rs 196 crore here. At that time, how were BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders and other Hindu leaders being implicated in false cases.
He said, “You must have seen in the case of Malegaon blast. The mischief of the Congress is a crime against the country and the party should apologize to the people of the country for this.”
#WATCH Congress ruled for a long time…You must have seen Maharashtra ATS statement…you must have seen how at that time they used to put wrong cases on workers and leaders of BJP, RSS in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Congress should apologise for it: UP CM Yogi Adityanath pic.twitter.com/0BAKVa9jRz
– ANI UP / Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) December 29, 2021
Yogi’s remarks came after a witness in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case turned hostile and testified in a Mumbai court that the then senior ATS officer Param Bir Singh and another officer had arrested him as the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath and another. Indresh Kumar was asked to name four leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Param Bir Singh, facing money laundering and other cases, was suspended this month.
The Chief Minister said that how the Congress, which is motivating and nurturing terrorists, is playing with the country, is not hidden from anyone. He alleged that earlier when Congress was in power, it used to inspire and nurture terrorists and file false cases against Hindu organizations and today when it is out of power, it opposes everything which is in the interest of development and public interest. is happening for
In his statement, the witness claimed that the ATS tortured him and made him sit in his office illegally. So far 220 witnesses have been examined in this case and 15 of them have turned hostile.
On 29 September 2008, six people were killed and over 100 were injured in a bomb blast in Malegaon, Maharashtra. The accused in the case include Lok Sabha member Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Major Ramesh Upadhyay (Retd), Ajay Rahirkar, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and Sameer Kulkarni. All of them are out on bail.(Agency)