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The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser, titled 8220;To make India great, get rid of treacherous harbingers of terror8221; observes

Mumbai attacks

The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser, titled 8220;To make India great, get rid of treacherous harbingers of terror8221; observes: 8220;The jehadi terror that struck Mumbai in eleven centres in the mid-night of November 26-27, in which 148 people were killed and over 350 injured, is by general consent considered the most daring terror operation ever in recent memory. It was a shameful spectacle; the entire administrative machinery looked collapsed for many hours. The prospect of a recurrence of this type of terror attack anywhere in the country looks more real now than ever. The wound this attack has inflicted will take long to heal. It is a retreat for India. Inept, inadequate and unmanly was the response of the Congress-led government at the centre and the state, which confirmed yet again the widespread belief that only a regime change with a clear and purposeful national mandate can pull the country out of the abyss, the Sonia-Manmohan misrule has landed us in.8221;

The signed editorial adds: 8220;See the tragedy. Hemant Karkare, head of the most reviled Anti-Terrorism Squad ATS, who fell victim to the 11/26 terror attack, reportedly told journalists a few hours before his death that 90 per cent of the ATS was busy investigating the Malegaon blast case. Malegaon was a minor incident. But the UPA chose to blow it out of proportion and behaved as if it was the only terror attack worth investigating. Because of the outrageous acts of the investigating agency and its politically motivated media plants and the repeated allusion to an alleged 8220;Hindu terror8221; mastermind, it will continue to haunt us for long as a mark of the UPA8217;s monumental folly. nbsp;For the first time Hindus were accused of terrorist links. The unbelievable audacity and imbecile impetuousness of the leaks from ATS damaged its reputation and earned it the dubious distinction of UPA8217;s dirty tricks department.8221;

Sadhvi torture

In a piece titled 8220;Sadhvi Pragya: Truth will prevail8221; Sandhya Jain writes: 8220;The ATS must be ruing the day it agreed to persecute Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Srikant Purohit and others on grounds of 8220;Hindu terror8221;. That the case was patently cooked up became visible from the moment the initial shock and surprise wore off, and with every passing day, as repeated police remands, narco-analysis, brain-mapping and lie detector tests failed to yield any half-credible evidence, the ATS found itself painted into a corner8230;8221;

She adds: 8220;On Friday, November 21 2008, a group of Delhi intellectuals led by the redoubtable KPS Gill, presented a memorandum against the ill-treatment meted out to Sadhvi Pragya on the basis of her sworn affidavit in court. Member of the NHRC, Mr. Justice GP Mathur, who met the delegation, assured appropriate and speedy action in accordance with Commission procedures. On Tuesday, November 25 2008, the National Human Rights Commission issued notice to the Maharashtra Government regarding allegations of custodial torture of Sadhvi Pragya.8221;

compiled by Suman K Jha