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Intimidation in Goa

August 21, 2009

The editor of Lokmat has filed a police complaint alleging that he received death threats after he published a cartoon of Swami Ramdas Samarth in a suit. The Hoot is publishing the complaint.

(Hoot) Sanatan Prabhat is an organization which has been under the lens of investigative agencies for fomenting terror against minorities. In Maharashtra they were suspected of aiding Sadhvi Pragya and Colonel Purohit in carrying out bomb blasts in the state. The Hindu Janjagran Samiti has been responsible for carrying out a campaign against M F Hussain.

Source: http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4045&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=6&valid=true

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