Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi today demanded a ban on right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha claiming that some of the people arrested by the Maharashtra ATS recently had links with the outfit.
He further demanded action against people who had been coming out in support of Vaibhav Raut who was arrested on August 10 after the ATS seized crude bombs and explosives in a raid at Nallasopara in neighbouring Palghar district.
He claimed that Raut and the two others arrested by the ATS in connection with the seizure were planning to set off bombs during Eid.
Addressing a press conference today, Azmi praised ATS and CBI for the arrests, including that of Aurangabad-resident Sachin Andure who the central agency has claimed was the main shooter in the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
"We now expect the agencies to make a watertight case so that these persons can be given the strictest punishment," Azmi said, adding that officials of these agencies should be provided security.
"We demand that Devendra Fadnavis government pursue these cases diligently and initiate the process to ban the Sanatan Sanstha," Azmi said.
He claimed that the arrest of persons like Raut had proved that terror had no caste or religion.
Azmi is an SP MLA from Govandi in eastern Mumbai.
The Sanatan Sanstha has repeatedly denied that the arrested persons had any link with it.
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