Sena hits out at Maha cops over media brief
Mumbai, Sept. 5: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Wednesday slammed the Maharashtra police for holding a press conference last week over the arrest of five Left- wing activists in multi- city raids for alleged Maoist links and favoured timely filing of chargesheet rather than labelling the accused as “Urban Naxals”.
He said the government should submit evidence in the court instead of revealing everything before the media.
Instead of labelling the accused as “Urban Naxals” or “Hindu terrorists”, chargesheets should be filed in time, Mr Thackeray said while referring to the cases involving the five activists as also to the probe into recent seizure of explosives across state for which some people allegedly associated with right- wing groups have been arrested. “A new system has started, wherein the police reveals everything before the court takes a decision. Even the court has expressed its displeasure over this... If what you’re doing is right, submit evidence before the court soon,” the Sena chief told reporters here after a meeting with his party leaders.
On Friday last week, state additional director general ( law and order) Parambir Singh along with the Pune police had addressed the media in connection with the arrest of five activists.
During the press conference, Mr Singh had read out letters purportedly exchanged between the activists and had claimed the police had “conclusive proof ” to link the Leftwing activists arrested in June and last week to Maoists. Pune police had on August 28 raided homes of prominent Left- wing activists in several states and arrested five of them.