Indian judiciary is in a coma, says The Caravan editor Vinod on Aseemanand's acquittal
On 16th April 2018, the NIA Court acquitted all five who were accused in the Mecca Masjid blasts, citing lack of evidence.
Vinod K. Jose, Executive Editor of the Caravan which had carried a voluntary confession of one of the key accused, Swami Aseemanand, is deeply upset by the NIA’s claim of “Not enough evidence”. Here is his facebook post about the acquittal :
“No evidence, no evidence & no evidence. Agencies and courts hearing terror cases across India, that had RSS men involved are making a mockery of justice. In 2014 The Caravan magazine had managed nine hrs confessions from Aseemanand from Ambala jail out of his free will, NIA had said it was coming to pick up the tapes. But it never did. The CBI passed on many volumes of evidences to the NIA when it took over all Hindu terror cases. Hemant Karkare’s Maharashtra ATS also passed on its painstakingly gathered evidences. The bureaucrats who worked dubiously in this period, later contested on BJP ticket to parliament, all became MPs, and some became ministers. NIA failed cases one after the other, and the celebrated new agency’s record suddenly became worse than the CBI. (NIA today is not National Investigation Agency, but No Investigation Agency.)
If the justice system in India failed or not, anyone who wanted to know what was going on India from 2005 and 2014 in the cases of Hindu terror groups, I suggest to read brilliant Leena Reghunath’s profile of Aseemanand. It is a must read at least once in your lifetime.
The piece was based on Aseemanand’s confessions from inside Ambala Central prison, the man who prided to be staying in the same cell as Gandhi killer Godse.
If you don’t have enough time today to read the whole article, just read two graphs from the screenshot attached. It will tell you why the plot was huge and the case was a big litmus test on Indian democracy to know if it had the guts to pursue justice. The Congress failed. And the BJP govt made sure no damage was done to the men and ideology. At the end everyone is happy. Except the families of 117 people killed in those 3-4 blasts.
Also, going by today’s headlines in the national papers, the NIA judge resigned from service soon after giving the judgment yesterday morning. Why?
Will we ever know the reason? Soon after his resignation, when people started asking why the judge resigned, a disinformation campaign started by a certain section of lawyers that a corruption case against the judge was with the High Court, but the High Court has rebutted it. We heard in Judge Loya story: Rs 100 cr offer for a favourable judgment, and when refused, finally death in mysterious circumstances. Indian judiciary is in coma. And if a democracy can’t investigate without fear and conduct a trial freely what has that society come to?”
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3 Indians arrested in Canada for shooting outside home
Ottawa (PTI): Three Indian nationals have been arrested by Canadian police on an anti-extortion patrol and charged after bullets were fired at a home.
Harjot Singh (21), Taranveer Singh (19) and Dayajeet Singh Billing (21) face one count each of discharging a firearm, and all have been remanded in custody until Thursday, the Surrey Police Service (SPS) said in a statement on Monday.
The suspects were arrested by patrol officers after an early morning report of shots fired and a small fire outside a home in Surrey's Crescent Beach neighbourhood, the LakelandToday reported.
On February 1, 2026, the SPS members were patrolling in Surrey’s Crescent Beach neighbourhood when reports came in of shots being fired and a small fire outside a residence near Crescent Road and 132 Street.
The three accused were arrested by SPS officers a short time later, the statement said.
SPS’s Major Crime Section took over the investigation, and the three men have now been charged with Criminal Code offences, it said.
All three have been charged with one count each of discharging a firearm into a place contrary to section 244.2(1)(a) of the Criminal Code.
The investigation is ongoing, and additional charges may be forthcoming. All three have been remanded in custody until February 5, 2026.
The SPS has confirmed they are all foreign nationals and has engaged the Canada Border Services Agency, it said.
One of the suspects suffered injuries, including two black eyes, the media report said.
Surrey police Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said on Monday that the suspect had refused to comply with instructions to get out of the ride-share vehicle and started to "actively resist."
"As we were trained, he was taken to the ground and safely handcuffed," said Houghton.
A second suspect with a black eye was also injured in the arrest after refusing to comply, Houghton said.
The arresting officers were part of Project Assurance, an initiative that patrols neighbourhoods that have been targeted by extortion violence.
Houghton said the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is also involved because the men are foreign nationals, and the trio may face additional charges.
It's not clear if the men are in the country on tourist visas, a study permit, or a work permit, but Houghton said CBSA has started its own investigation into the men's status.
Surrey has seen a number of shootings at homes and businesses over the last several months, but there's been an escalation since the new year.
