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NHRC playing partisan role: BJP

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Some members of the Commission “partisan”
“Tehelka not an independent investigative agency”

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday alleged that the National Human Rights Commission was playing a “partisan role” under the United Progressive Alliance government.

Criticising the NHRC decision to ask for a CBI investigation into some major incidents of assault and murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots, based on the recent Tehelka investigation, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said here, “Tehelka was not an independent investigative agency. It works for the interest of the Congress party.”

The first Tehelka sting operation was designed to bring a bad name to the BJP and the Vajpayee government, he said. “Why is it that their sting operations have not targeted top Congress leaders?” Although he would not allege bias on the part of the NHRC, the “partisan role of some of its members was well known,” Mr. Prasad said. He, however, refused to name them.

Police probe “adequate”

While admitting that the Supreme Court had in some instances ordered retrial of some riot cases and even passed strictures on the the Narendra Modi government, Mr. Prasad said the continuing investigation by the Gujarat police was adequate. Some of the cases were already being monitored by the Supreme Court, so why should the NHRC step in, five years after the incidents?

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