Report naming Congress leaders and Dawood not being made public by government

The Congress was helpless in this case as some of its own partymen were named in the report. Is the BJP helpless, too? We were expecting a very different approach to this issue when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister,” he said.

The report was prepared after taking inputs from different intelligence agencies that included R&AW, IB and state intelligence departments.

The N.N. Vohra committee, which was constituted more than 24 years ago to unearth the criminalisation of politics and the nexus among criminals, bureaucrats and politicians, contains details as to how politicians and bureaucrats helped the criminals, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to commit crimes, including the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

The committee, led by former Home Secretary N.N. Vohra, who is presently the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, was constituted in July 1993 soon after the March 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts “to take stock of all available information about the activities of the crime syndicates/mafia organizations which had developed links with, and were being protected by Government functionaries and political personalities”. The findings of the committee were submitted to the government in October 1993. However, it was not until August 1995, when the Central government, facing the heat in the Naina Sahni murder case, agreed to table the report before Parliament. However, the government, under political compulsions, refused to share the major findings of the report and later went to the Supreme Court and took a stay order from court against making the findings of the report public.