Seeking to put a lid on the controversy regarding the alleged role of Bharatiya Janata Party president L K Advani in the conspiracy to kill Pakistan Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1947, a newspaper there has reported that he was 'not involved' although some Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members were arrested then in this connection.
The Urdu daily, Nawa-e-Waqt, reported that a case was registered in September that year at the Jamshed Quarters police station in Karachi against a group of people for 'conspiring to kill the Qaid-e-Azam with an explosive.'
Some RSS members were caught in the Shikarpur colony while making a bomb which exploded prematurely, it said.
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"The inspector who registered the First Information Report was a Hindu, Moti Ram. But one witness who had come forth to help the police was Ram Chand Advani which was later confused with L K Advani," a recent Nawa-e-Waqt report said.
"Ram Chand Advani had come forward against the RSS," it added.
The case was lodged at Karachi's Jamshed Quarters police station, on September 10, 1947, a few weeks after Partition.
"We still have the FIR of this case in our records," an official at the police station had reportedly said when Advani visited Pakistan in May-June.
The Pakistani government had then said it was not aware of any criminal case against the BJP chief.