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Deendar Anjuman to challenge ban

The Hyderabad-based fringe religious outfit Deendar Anjuman, banned by the Central government for its unlawful activities, Friday said it would challenge the decision in a court, and reiterated that it had no role in the serial bomb blasts in churches in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa last year.

''The ban is imposed on us without any valid reason. It is an attack on secular values for whose promotion our organisation has been working,'' its general secretary Syed Basha said.

Claiming that the organisation, founded in 1923 at Gadag in Karnataka, has been striving for Hindu-Muslim unity and upholding spiritual values, he spoke about a 'conspiracy to malign' the outfit by linking it to bomb blasts at places of worship.

''We have consistently denied the charge of engineering bomb blasts and made repeated appeals to Union Home Minister (L K Advani) to conduct any kind of probe into our activities. But there was no response,'' Basha said.

Seeking to make a distinction between 'misguided acts of individuals and the organisation's spiritual mission', he said, ''Let there be a stringent punishment for those individuals who resorted to violence in the name of Deendar Anjuman. We do not subscribe to such agenda. But do not paint the organisation with the same brush.''

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