Goa blast: Maharashtra State rejects police plan to ban Sanatan Sanstha

Kartik Shuddha Navami, Kaliyug Varsha 5111

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Mumbai: The state government has sent back to the state police, a proposal seeking a ban on the right wing organisation, Sanatan Sanstha. The Home department has made some queries and told the state police to give a comprehensive explanation.

This was the second proposal sent by the state police to the Home department, seeking a ban on the Sanstha, a Hindu revivalist group and sister organisation of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti. On September 6, 2008, TOI was the first to report about a proposal being sent by the state anti-terrorism squad (ATS) to the government. The second proposal was sent in September this year.

Last week, the state police received a list of queries from the state, which require clarification, before the state gives a green signal to the proposal and sends it to the Union government. S S Virk, director-general of police, said that they were examining the case. "The proposal was sent by the intelligence agencies to the state but the Home department has returned the proposal to us with some queries. We are trying to answer all of them and check the latest activities of Sanatan Sanstha, its members, to find out if they are still active (terror-related action),” said Virk.

On October 16, a motorcycle blast in Goa killed two Sanstha members, Malgunda Patila and Yogesh Naik, both residents of Maharashtra. "After the Maharashtra link cropped up in the Goa blast, we sent our team there to see if Sanstha members were involved in the blast. However, the evidence and our information does not corroborate their involvement,” added Virk.

The state police chief said the Sanstha members were working on the lines of Bajrang Dal but refused to comment on why Bajrang Dal has not been banned so far. According to him, there was not sufficient evidence against Bajrang Dal too. "Members are performing their activities `silently’ and their involvement was also found in Miraj and Sangli,” he added. A police team also conducted a thorough search of Patil and Naik’s residences in Maharashtra but was tightlipped about the results.

Source: TOI

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