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Send Christian haters to jail: Sorabjee

Attorney General Soli Sorabjee today launched a veiled attack on the Bajrang Dal and said people raising such slogans as "oust Christian" should be sent to lunatic asylums.

"People who make statements that Christians are bigger enemies than Muslims should be locked up either in jail or in a lunatic asylum," Sorabjee told PTI.

Newspaper reports recently quoted a Bajrang Dal leader from the Brij region near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh saying that Christians were "bigger enemies than Muslims" and also that "his organisation was ready to fight wherever Church institutions were active."

The Attorney General said such irresponsible statements and acts like the recent vandalisation of a cemetery in Andhra Pradesh would damage the secular image of the country.

"Such scurrilous statements cause immense damage to the secular image of our country and induce a sense of insecurity in the minds of minorities," he said.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh government asking it to submit a report within a week regarding the news item.

PTI

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