New Delhi, August 01: The BJP today accused the Congress of being obsessed with the protection of the human rights of “terrorists” and said that the CBI’s plea before the Supreme Court to shift the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case outside Gujarat amounts to contempt of the apex court.
Charging the Congress with misusing the CBI in the Sohrabuddin case, the party said that there are about 170 cases of fake encounters pending with the National Human Rights Commission and hoped that the apex court will take cognisance of these cases too and order a CBI probe into them.
“It is ironical today that the Congress is obsessed with the human rights of terrorists and does not want to address the issue of terrorism per se. It does not want to address the issue of national security, Naxalism, law and orders but obsessed with human rights of criminals,” BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said at a press conference in New Delhi.
He said that the Gujarat chief minister has raised a “very vital question” about the CBI seeking the transfer of Sohrabuddin’s case from Gujarat.
“The party (BJP) agrees with the “anguish and pain” of Narendra Modi over the issue. When the CBI wants shifting of the case from Gujarat, we believe that this is actually a contempt of the Supreme Court because the Gujarat high court judges are not appointed by the Gujarat government but the Supreme Court,” he said.
Javadekar described Sohrabuddin as a dreaded terrorist and criminal and alleged that the Congress is trying to make him a martyr.
“The Congress is concerned for the protection of a dreaded terrorist but not for those 30,000 people who fell victim to the Bhopal gas tragedy,” he charged.
–Agencies