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Publication: PTI
Date: June 23, 2004
City BJP on Tuesday charged the
Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra with "encouraging the scourge of
terrorism" by helping the family of a "terrorist." Reacting to reports
of NCP leader Vasant Davkhare donating Rs one lakh to the family of Ishrat
Jehan Sheikh, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist who was killed in an
encounter in Gujarat, city BJP chief Mayaben Kodnani said her party condemns
such an act of the NCP leader, who had been the deputy speaker in Maharashtra
Legislative Council.
Ishrat's killing had recently stirred
a controversy and police's role had come under cloud after questions were
raised about her terrorist links.
Later, crime branch had claimed
to have unflinching evidence about her links with terrorist outfits.
