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Pro-Muslim activists try to gag the media & police of tracking the terror trail in Karnataka</b>


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Stung by the series of recent terror reports, pro-Muslim elements accuse the police force of ‘pandering to communal elements during the terror trail, joined by the media which are blowing issues out of proportion.’
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BANGALORE, March 2: <b>The state police force, which has been hunting for terrorists since January, has been accused by minority and human rights forums which are now charging them with wearing saffron than Khaki with the accusation falling quite apart from the present terror trail.</b>

A meeting convened here on Wednesday came down severely on the police department with speakers from Karnataka accusing the police force of pandering to communal elements during and even before the terror trail, joined by the local media which were “blowing issues out of proportion with misleading, unverified information.”
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Since January the police have been announcing the arrest of “top terror suspects” which include Mohammed Asif, Riyazuddin Nasir, Asadulah Abubakker, Allabaksh Yadwad and Yahya Khan for various attacks across India with another apprehended in Uttar Pradesh Sabauddin suspected to be a key player in the attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bangalore. </b>He is suspected to be Abu Hamza’s associate in the attack. Hamza again is suspected to be the key operative in the IISC attack . While the police hunt is still on, the media reports or leaks have come in for severe criticism all round, including even from a section of the mainstream media in Karnataka.

The criticism is not without substance. Since the IISC attack in December 2005 the Karnataka police have at least notified of five cases of nabbing of terror suspects with Lashkar-e-toiba links, each case proving to be a non-starter which sank without an explanation after hectic media coverage. The recent arrests have not left the skeptics quite while human rights activists are aghast with the coverage of the police operations in the media leaving the Muslims feeling targeted.
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Some like Mr Ramadevana of Janapara Vedike, openly termed the police force overtly communal in distinct parts of Karnataka as Udupi, Mangalore and North Karnataka. “One wears khaki and the other saffron there. Otherwise there is no difference between the police and the Sangh,” he alleged.</b>

Minorities, activists suspect saffron change in Karnataka police force
http://www.thestatesman.org/page.news.php?...ess=1&id=193423