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“Why not apply MCOCA to Delhi blasts accused?”

NEW DELHI: Criticising the invocation of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against the Malegaon blast accused, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday attacked the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for not charging those involved in the recent serial blasts in Delhi under the same Act.

“In 2002, the MCOCA was made applicable in Delhi too, which is being used by the police in petty crimes. I want to ask the Centre why the Delhi police did not use MCOCA against those responsible for serial blasts in Delhi. What prevented the Delhi police from doing so,” asked BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley.

“Therefore, the question arises that whether the Congress government’s policy of using the MCOCA depends upon the religion of the accused or on the nature of the offence,” he charged, accusing the Union Government of indulging in double standards.

Similarly, the Centre and the Delhi police had kept mum over the investigations into the serial blasts as well as on the Batla House encounter, he said and added: “The country wants to know, but neither the government nor the Delhi police was ready to share any information on this.”

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