In a welcome development the Government of India has handed over Samjhauta Express blast case to National Investigation Agency (NIA). This was announced in New Delhi by Mr. U K Bansal, Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Union Home Ministry on July 29, 2010. Later on, confirming the decision, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram explained: “One of the aspects that NIA will probe is whether it has got any connection with those (Hindutva groups ideologically assimilated w...

Muslim organisations of Rajasthan have taken strong exception to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi claiming that the police of his State had made important contributions in solving the May 2008 blasts case in Jaipur. They affirmed that the breakthrough claimed by the Gujarat police within 21 days of the July 2008 blasts in Ahmedabad was itself full of “discrepancies and loopholes”.

The Rajasthan Muslim Forum – an apex body of Muslim groups in the State &ndas...