The Supreme Court on August 27 agreed to examine a request for further investigation into all the bomb blasts cases since 2002 by a committee which should be headed by a retired Supreme Court Judge and include investigating officers and other experts. In their Public Interest Litigation, two Mumbai residents have pleaded for a further probe into blast cases, including Samjhauta blast, Malegaon blast, Mecca Masjid blast and Ajmer Sharif blast, by a special committee, besides action against the police officials involved in framing innocent Muslim youths.
“The petitioners submit that the issue is of vital national importance as Muslims in the country are being deliberately targeted and innocent Muslim boys are being blamed for all the blast cases and arrested on fabricated and false evidence,” said the PIL, adding that the investigating agencies were not going to the root of the real conspiracy. Accusing the investigating agency of helping the right-wing Hindutva organisations, the plea further said: “The Muslims in general perceive that their community is being unfairly targeted by investigating agencies…the investigation of bomb blast cases are biased and prejudiced and the real perpetrators are not brought to book.”