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 Discuss | Email | Print | Get latest news on your desktop Full text of Advani's statement on Sadhvi Pragya and the Maharashtra ATS Sheela Bhat in New Delhi | November 18, 2008 22:52 IST So far I had refrained from commenting on the allegations levelled by the Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad against Sadhvi Pragya and her supposed associates. But after going through her affidavit detailing how she was physically and psychologically tortured and abused by her interrogators, I have to express my shock and outrage which I am sure all Indians will share. It is incredible that the Sadhvi was kept in illegal detention for two weeks while she was tortured in a vicious manner which led to her hospitalisation. Polygraph and narco tests were conducted without her consent. Not even a female constable was present during her illegal confinement It has further become clear that the ATS is acting in a politically motivated and unprofessional manner. After levelling all kind of charges against a serving Army officer, and suggesting he stole RDX from an army depot to organise the blasts on the Samjhauta Express, it has now admitted that no RDX was used in those blasts. Email | Print | Get latest news on your desktop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||