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NEW DELHI, FEB. 11. Expressing surprise over protests by the "secular gang" accusing the Delhi police of being involved in the assault on Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, V.K. Malhotra, today said by doing so they were becoming party to the anti-India propaganda. Mr. Malhotra charged the "secular gang" with double standards. He said while the Parliament attack case was pending with the Supreme Court, the "so-called human rights activists and the secular gang" were saying that Mr. Geelani was innocent till he was proven otherwise. "However, in the case of Kanchi Sankaracharya, they said he was guilty till proven innocent," he said. "They are charging the police with complicity in the attack on Mr. Geelani without any evidence. If there was a threat to his life, the UPA Government, which is at the Centre for the past eight months, should be asked why it did not provide him security. The Union Home Minister should be held responsible for this. For their part, the police have said that Geelani had never approached them seeking security," said Mr. Malhotra. "The same happened in the case of Ishrat. The so-called human right activists accused the Gujarat police of having murdered an innocent. They went on to plan a memorial in her name and to give Rs. 1 lakh to her family. But when the probe established that she indeed had links with terrorists, they were left embarrassed," he added. He said such a negative propaganda by the "secular gang" showed the Indian agencies in poor light and damaged the country's image in the eyes of the world. Stating that even the Home Minister, Shivraj Patil. was treading with caution in the matter, Mr. Malhotra said had there been a BJP Government at the Centre, "there would have been much hue and cry".
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