10-25-2007, 10:28 PM
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Convict warns recurrence of blasts if 'Muslims are suppressed'
Coimbatore (PTI): A convict - sentenced for double life term in the 1998 serial blast cases - on wednesday warned that similar blasts were bound to happen again if the "voice of Muslims were suppressed".
Special Judge K Uthirapathi pronounced two life terms and over 50 years' imprisonment for various other charges to Saleem alias Salim Basha, who later told the Court that "by punishing Muslims, it would not achieve anything".
"Imam Ali and Ansari would be born again, if innocent Muslims are punished, for no fault of theirs," he said.
Incidents like these (blasts) were bound to happen again, if action was not taken against Sangh Parivar, Saleem cautioned.
The blasts during the visit of BJP leader L K Advani on February 14,1998, had claimed 58 lives. </span>
Convict warns recurrence of blasts if 'Muslims are suppressed'
Coimbatore (PTI): A convict - sentenced for double life term in the 1998 serial blast cases - on wednesday warned that similar blasts were bound to happen again if the "voice of Muslims were suppressed".
Special Judge K Uthirapathi pronounced two life terms and over 50 years' imprisonment for various other charges to Saleem alias Salim Basha, who later told the Court that "by punishing Muslims, it would not achieve anything".
"Imam Ali and Ansari would be born again, if innocent Muslims are punished, for no fault of theirs," he said.
Incidents like these (blasts) were bound to happen again, if action was not taken against Sangh Parivar, Saleem cautioned.
The blasts during the visit of BJP leader L K Advani on February 14,1998, had claimed 58 lives. </span>