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| Ban to continue on Deendar Ajnuman: Govt | | |
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NEW DELHI, JUNE 5: The government of India has ruled out lifting of ban on the Deendar Anjuman. The reason: Activists and supporters of the Deendar Anjuman continue to be inspired by, or loyal to, Syed Zia-ul-Hassan, A Mardan-based Pakistani national and elder son of Deeendar Anjuman's founder, Syed Siddique Deendar Channabasveshwar.
The Deendar Anjuman faced the strin gent official action--that is ban--after the CID investigations revealed that the serial blasts, carried out at places of worship in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa during May-June 2000, were planned by members belonging to the oganisation. Main allgation against the Deenda Anjuman was that it worked at the behest of Pakistan's ISI.
According to intelligence inputs available with the government of India, even after the Dendar Anjuman was outlawed, groups of loyalists of the organisation continue to be active in parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa. And in view of the unabated activity of ISI-loyalists in southern States of the country, the Union Home Ministry is believed to have categorically ruled out lifting of the ban on the organisation in the given situation.
The Union government imposed a ban on Deendar Anjuman, an obscure Hyderabad-based sect, on the ground that the organisation had engineered bomb blasts in churches in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa between May and July 2000. Asked why the government had taken so long to impose the ban, a senior official of the government of India said: “It takes time because first a thorough investigation is done and a prima race case is made out. The ban is imposed only after consultations with the States concerned”.
Deendar Anjuman was fomenting communal tension and has links with Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, the official claimed. In short, its activities all added up to “being prejudicial to India’s security”, he contended. The organisation was engaged in distribution of anti-Christian literature, in espionage activities, and was “having the potential to disturb peace and the secular fabric of the country”, the official alleged.
He claimed the Anjuman had “links in Mardan, in Pakistan, and has been organising a band of disgruntled Muslim youths in India into a militant outfit for launching jehad (holy war) with the avowed objective of total Islamisation of the subcontinent”.
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