Since this new govt came, I have been told to go soft on accused (Hindu extremists): Special Public Prosecutor
25, Jun 2015
Rohini Salian said she wants the NIA to officially denotify her from the case to which she was appointed in 2008, ‘so that I am free to take up other cases, against the NIA, if need be’.
Written by Sunanda Mehta | Mumbai/pune | Updated: June 25, 2015 10:26 am
Rohini Salian, Special Public Prosecutor in the case related to the Malegaon 2008 blasts in which four Muslims were killed during Ramzan and in which Hindu extremists are the accused, has said that over the past one year, since “the new government came to power,” she has been under pressure from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to go “soft” in the case.
Soon after the NDA government came to power last year, she said, she got a call from one of the officers of the NIA — the agency investigating all the alleged Hindu extremist cases — asking to come over to speak with her. “He didn’t want to talk over the phone. He came and said to me that there is a message that I should go soft,” Salian told The Indian
