BJP flays UP Govt for accepting Nimesh Commission report

BJP today flayed Uttar Pradesh Government for accepting the Nimesh Commission report on the arrest of two Muslim youths in 2007 on terror charges, saying the step has been taken under SP's "appeasement policy".
"The government is not looking at things on merit but only acting with an eye on vote bank politics and today's move is just another example of the appeasement policy," state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
The state Cabinet today accepted the RD Nimesh Commission report which probed the arrest of two Muslim youths -- Tariq Qasmi and Khalid Mujahid -- after serial blasts in courts in Lucknow, Faizabad, Varanasi and Gorakhpur in November 2007.

The government will present the report in the coming UP legislative session along with the action taken report.
"The report was handed over to the government in August last year but it did not act on it then....Today it took the decision only under pressure of the Mujahid's family," Pathak said.
Qasmi and Mujahid, who died on May 28 while he was being brought back to Lucknow jail from the Faizabad court, were arrested in 2007 by the Special Task force of the UP police in Barabanki allegedly along with some explosives.
Following hue and cry by social activists, the then Mayawati government constituted the Commission to probe into the allegations that the two Muslims youths were falsely implicated.

The family has warned of going on indefinite strike to pressurise the government for making the report public.