MUSLIMS PROTEST RAGHUVANSHI’S APPOINTMENT AS ATS CHIEF

The appointment of K P Raghuvanshi as chief of Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) Maharashtra has triggered anger among the Muslims especially those of Malegaon. Kul Jamatee Tanzeem, a group of various Muslim organisations while welcoming the Bombay High Court verdict ordering the earliest appointment of the ATS chief, has condemned the appointment of Raghuvanshi ATS chief and called it ‘rubbing salts on the injuries of the Malegaon 2006 blasts accused and the peace loving people.’ The post of ATS chief had been vacant since 26/11 attack on Mumbai when the then chief Hemant Karkare was killed in action. In a meting held on June 14 by Kul Jamatee Tanzeem the famous Muslims scholar and social worker Maulana Abdul Hameed Azhari asked the Congress-NCP state government to revise its decision of appointing Raghuvanshi as ATS chief. A Shia Isna Ashari leader Arif, reportedly said that Raghuvanshi has been responsible for all the torture ATS did on Muslims during May 2006 Aurangabad weapons seizure case to September 29, 2008 Bhikko Chowk blasts. He added, ‘to make such a biased officer the ATS chief is tantamount to encouraging him.’