AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused the NIA of not showing urgency in securing convictions in terror cases involving "non-Muslims", a day after a special NIA court awarded death penalty to five IM operatives, including Yasin Bhatkal, in 2013 Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts case. In a series of tweets, the Hyderabad lok Sabha MP questioned the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and also mounted a veiled attack on the Centre saying, "Do not be surprised the way NIA is pursuing those Bomb Blast cases where accused are Non-Muslims they will be exonerated because of Ache DinIJ".
"Why can't our Premier Investigation Agencies show same Urgency to convict all alleged terrorist cases, Demolition of Babri Masjid pending since 92," he asked. The BJP slammed Owaisi over the allegation levelled by him against the NIA, alleging he thrives on "communal
agenda".
"Owaisi thrives on communal agenda. He is trying to communalise a court verdict. Politicians of this kind have become a parasite on Indian democracy," BJP's National Secretary Sidharth Nath Singh told a news conference in Delhi. Over the awarding of death penalty to the five Indian Mujahideen operatives, he sought to know, while 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast accused were convicted, will the NIA "get conviction" in Mecca Masjid blast, Ajmer Dargha blast and Malegaon blasts cases.