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State didn't prosecute riot accused with same zeal as Yakub: Justice Srikrishna
August 02, 2015
State showed "bias" and an absence of "zeal" in persecuting those accused of killing more than 900 people during the Mumbai riots of 1992, the judge who headed the probe told
NDTV.
At a time when the execution of Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the 1993 blasts that followed the riots, has opened a debate, Justice BN Srikrishna told
NDTV's Barkha Dutt that the state and "those
who wielded power" had shown an evident bias in not probing the riot
cases with the same energy as they had shown in convicting those
responsible for the blasts in which 257 people were killed.
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