New Delhi: Supporting death penalty for terrorists, former CBI director Joginder Singh has accused Yakub Memon, hanged for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, and his supporters of misusing India’s liberal laws and called for an overhaul of anti-terror legislations.
In an article in RSS organ Organiser, the former CBI director hit out at rights activists opposing death sentence to Memon, saying they did so for the sake of publicity. He also made a strong case for change in anti-terror laws, saying India was unable to fight extremists because the then government in 2004 had repealed anti-terror laws in the name of vote bank politics.
“India has failed to tackle terrorism for the simple reason that all terrorism laws were repealed by the then government in 2004, for appeasement, vote bank politics,” he wrote.
