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Rameshwar cafe blast: Comment by SM Mushrif

 https://www.livemint.com/news/india/bjp-worker-detained-in-bengaluru-rameshwaram-cafe-blast-case-report-11712318088070.html


 The above link is in respect of the bomb blast taken place on 1 March 2024 at Rameshwar cafe in Bengaluru. Its investigation was taken over by the NIA on 3 March 2024. The NIA started the investigation and shortly detained BJP worker Sai Prasad for his alleged involvement in the blast. India Today reported that he was named by two mobile shop workers. The investigation further revealed that Sai Prasad had contacts with the suspects.
     Suddenly, NIA declared that one Muzammil Shareef was the mastermind behind the blast and that he had tendered logistic support to the two accused who actually caused the blast. NIA claimed that it had  identified the two accused  as Mussavir Husain Shazib and Abdul Matheen Taahaa.
     In its press-release dated 5 April 2024, the NIA stated that the mastermind Muzammil Shareef was arrested on 26 March 2024 and a cash reward of 10 lakh each had been declared on the absconders who carried out the blast. The whole press release is focused on the three Muslim accused. There is no mention, whatsoever, of BJP worker Sai Prasad, who was the main culprit.

     This is not the first case in which the accused persons belonging to BJP, RSS, and other right-wing organisations were let off and innocent persons were arrested. I am giving below 5 such cases from my book "Brahminist Bombed, Muslims hanged".


 These are only sample cases. In the book "Brahminist Bombed, Muslims hanged," I have exposed more than 60 cases in which accused belonging to RSS, BJP, Bajrang Dal, etc. were let off and innocent person were arrested only on the basis of their confessional statements recorded under duress. More than four years have passed since the book was released, but so far, nobody has challenged its contents.

          The NIA and ATS in the states had been routinely protecting the real culprits and prosecuting innocent persons, but nobody questioned - neither courts, nor media, nor politicians, nor 'honest' intellectuals. Those whom we call 'honest' may be monetarily or materially honest, but they are definitely not intellectually honest. Everybody believed the verson of the ATS or the 
NIA and took their
 statements as gospel truth. That is perhaps why ATS and NIA require more Sadanand Dates.

S M Mushrif

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