Saraswati faced threat for his activities: DGP

Security was provided to slain VHP leader Swami Laxamananda Saraswati because of threat perception stemming from his activities in Orissa's Kandhamal district.

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Bhubaneswar | September 28, 2009 02:46 PM IST

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Security was provided to slain VHP leader Swami Laxamananda Saraswati because of threat perception stemming from his activities in Orissa’s Kandhamal district.

“The threat perception was in view of his Hindu assertive activities and the reaction such activities evoked from rival groups. Accordingly,Saraswati was provided an armed personal security officer (PSO),” Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj said in his affidavit before the commission of inquiry probing the killing of the VHP leader and the violence in its aftermath.

“Saraswati was taking up causes like protection of cows,opposing conversion and spreading vedic education from his ashram at Chakapada and Jalespeta in Kandhamal district,” the affidavit said.

“Saraswati’s opposition to cow slaughter and conversion created tension and clashes between his supporters and rival groups,” Praharaj said.

Praharaj said “Allegation of conversion and the sharp reaction it evoked from assertive Hindu groups in the backdrop of enthno-communal divide used to cause law and order problem.”

The State Level Security Committee had decided to provide security to Saraswati on October 29,2003,the DGP said.

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