Govt will seek ban on Sanatan: Shantaram
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MAY 11
Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik has said that the State government would certainly move a proposal to Center seeking a ban on Sanatan Sanstha.
“Enough material has been handed over to State government against the Sanstha and the chargesheet filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) will make a stronger case for a ban,” Naik told reporters at a press briefing.
“I don’t think that, with all these evidences, there would be any doubt in the mind of chief minister and State home minister (to propose ban on Sanatan),” he said.
Naik said that the State government would soon be moving a proposal to the Center asking for a ban on the Sanstha.
“I have full faith in the chief minister and home minister. They would take the necessary steps,” he stated.
Naik’s statement was in contradiction to the stand taken by Home Minister Ravi Naik, who had said that the police would examine the possibility of ban only after going through the chargesheet filed by NIA.
“We will go through the chargesheet before deciding anything,” Ravi told reporters here yesterday, adding that the Director General of Police (DGP) Bhimsen Bassi would be asked to examine the chargesheet.
Ravi said that the State government had not thought about the ban earlier and was waiting for NIA investigation to get over.
“I can’t say whether the ban would be recommended or not,” the Home Minister said.
On Sunday, Chief Minister Digamber Kamat said that he was yet to receive any proposal from the home ministry for bannig Sanatan.
NIA is probing Margao bomb blast in which four Sanatan activists were arrested for conspiring to execute serial bomb blasts across the State on Diwali eve last year. The NIA is likely to file the chargesheet against all the four accused on May 17.
