NIA did not ask Rohini Salian to go slow in Malegaon blast case: AG

September 21, 2015 12:13

Malegaon blast case: The Central govt has sought two more weeks to respond to the petitions on the issue of the removal of Special Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian (pictured). Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi rubbishes allegations in the Supreme Court that former prosecutor Rohini Salian was pressurised by the NIA to 'go slow' in the case.

Kicking up a controversy, the special public prosecutor in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case in which some Hindu extremists are accused, alleged that the National Investigation Agency had asked her to "go soft" on the accused after the Narendra Modi government assumed power in May last year.

"An NIA officer called me up and said he wanted to meet me. He then met me some time last year and asked me to go soft on the accused in this case," claimed Rohini Salian, who is the SPP in the case. She said the officer, who she declined to name, had apparently got instructions from higher-ups to convey this to her, Salian told reporters in Mumbai.

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