Veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday demanded a probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the bomb explosion incident at Habibi Nagar in Hazaribagh.
After visiting the affected areas of communal violence and other incidents, Sinha said that the intensity of exploded bombs, previous history of Khirgaon area and talks of involvement of foreign nationals indicate that Hazaribagh has become a soft target for the international terrorist organisations and serious probe is necessary now.
Talking to newsmen here at Atal Bhawan, former Union Minister raised some serious questions on the administration and alleged that it was a failure of district and police administration. “I was talking with a person over phone from Delhi when the explosion took place and yet police took so much time to reach there that the wounded culprits managed to escape from the spot and the blood spots were covered by lime. The boulders used in railway tracks were stored on the roofs of some buildings there which were used on the Ramnavami procession and the local administration failed to get any clue of that,” he pointed out.
“Ramnavami fest at Hazaribagh is famous worldwide. Everyone knows that the occasion requires some extra arrangements from the administration but it is unfortunate that no concrete administrative procedure was put in place. Officers handled the situation on their own due to non-availability of any established procedure,” he pointed out.
Recommending the need of framing an administrative procedure, Sinha blamed the local administration for working on the principle of parity and for it harassing the innocent people.
Reacting to the allegation of opposition parties that it all happened due to a song played during the procession, Sinha retorted, “why should anyone have objection when songs having words against country like Pakistan where terror factories against our country are flourishing. Why did not they raise voice when CDs of speeches of Syed Akbaruddin are played during other occasions. I have talked to the DGP and will soon speak to the CM for a high level administrative probe into the incident.
He also warned those government servants who are still working with a mindset to crush the innocent citizens of a community and demanded compensation for all those who have lost their houses and shops during the recent incidents.
Meanwhile, normal life looks limping back to normal as the district administration lifted curfew for ten hours today and everything remained normal all through the day. The curfew was relaxed from 8 am to 6 pm and all the banks, offices and other organizations functioned as usual. Since morning classes are going on in the schools, so the schools remained closed but colleges and university were open.