Makkah Masjid blast anniversary: Activists urge govt to make public Justice Bhaskar Rao Commission report
Justice Bhaskar Rao Commission was appointed by the state government to probe the police firing, which submitted its report in 2010 but it has not been made public yet.
Hyderabad: Today marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Makkah Masjid bomb blast that killed nine and injured about 60 others on May 18, 2007. On the occasion, members of the civil society in Hyderabad urged the Telangana government to intervene in ensuring justice for the bereaved families.
Apart from those killed in the blast, five more lives were lost in police firing. Justice Bhaskar Rao Commission was appointed by the state government to probe the police firing, which submitted its report in 2010 but it has not been made public yet.
Social activists, lawyers, educationists and journalists and others wrote an open letter and demanded that the state government file an intervention in the criminal appeal filed by the victims of the blast in Telangana High Court.
They also sought action against the ‘erring’ officers responsible for the police firing incident and the death of five persons. Demanding safeguarding of the interests of the minority communities, they sought strict action against those spreading communal hatred against others through social media.
They rued that the report of the commission submitted in 2010 has not been tabled before the State legislature yet. The activists demanded that the Telangana government should take action based on the findings of the Justice Bhaskar Rao Commission to deliver justice.
