Mumbai, August 02: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said that the state government will move the Supreme Court against the special court’s decision to drop charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the 11 accused in the Malegaon blast case.
“Whether the blast case is pertaining to Nanded or Malegaon, terrorists are terrorists. They do not represent any caste or religion,” he said, while addressing a rally at the Congress Bhavan in the city on Saturday.
A special MCOCA court on Friday had dropped the charges against all the 11 accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.The accused included Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit, Rakesh Dhawade and others.
Chavan said that his government would firmly deal with those involved in terrorist activities and there would be no compromise at any cost.”We have to create an atmosphere of faith and trust in the minds of the people of the state,” he said.
The CM also made oblique references to the Shiv Sena’s Shiv vada pav scheme. “Nowadays, they are talking only of wada pav. Of course, the pav and the wada both belong to them and the common man hardly gets anything out of it,” he said.
–Agencies