Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: February 1, 2002
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7071
Pakistan officials carried out a
major operation to search old court records "implicating" Home Minister
L.K. Advani and 40 other RSS activists in a criminal case to assassinate
Pakistan founder leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah and others, The News daily
reported on Friday, a day after India ridiculed the report as "juvenile
posturing".
Officials searched for records of
the case at the Sindh High Court, City Court and Sindh Home Department
in Karachi to get more details of the case in connection with which Advani's
name may figure in Pakistan's list of those wanted from India, the paper
said.
It said according to fresh details
obtained, a criminal case was registered against 40 other activists for
an alleged attempt to assassinate Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah
and other leaders in 1947 following an explosion in the house of an RSS
activist.
It also said according to records
available, the "Shikarpur Colony conspiracy case" was registered following
a bomb blast in a house of an RSS activist Totaram on Sept 10, 1947 in
which two people were killed.
In the ensuing trial by special
tribunal on Sept 17, 1948 15 people were convicted, four others acquitted
while the remaining accused including Advani were placed in "dormant file".
