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Fake encounters: A blot on Indian democracy With India’s premier investigating agency calling the Ishrat Jahan killing a fake encounter and filing its first charge sheet in the case against seven police officers, our political class has found yet another opportunity to indulge in scoring brownie points over each other. Jahan, a 19-year-old college student, was gunned down on June 15, 2004 along with three men by a police and intelligence squad near Ahmedabad city in Gujarat. In its chargesheet filed on June 3, the Central Bureau of Investigation refuted state government’s claim that Jahan and the three men were terrorists heading to assassinate chief minister Narendra Modi. The agency also claimed that the police officers abducted the four days earlier and shot them in cold blood on the early morning of June 15, 2004. A deluge of opinions beamed live through national television channels and on social media platforms seem to be focused on ascertaining the involvement of Gujarat’s...

Jan 20, 2013, 02.15 RSS, BJP camps promoting Hindu terror: Sushilkumar Shinde JAIPUR/ NEW DELHI: Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has accused the BJP and the RSS of fanning Hindu terrorism, a charge which drew angry reaction from both of them. "Reports have come during investigation that BJP and RSS conduct terror training camps to spread terrorism... Bombs were planted in Samjhauta express, Mecca Masjid and also a blast was carried out in Malegaon. "We will have to think about it seriously and will have to remain alert," Shinde said at the AICC meeting in Jaipur on Sunday. As his remarks were slammed by RSS and BJP which termed them as "dangerous" and accused Congress of indulging in "destructive politics", Shinde stuck to his stand, saying, "This has come so many times in the papers... It is not a new thing that I have said today. "This is saffron terrorism that I have talked about. It is the same thing and nothing new. It...