No party leader used the term 'saffron terror', says Congress

The Congress on Monday said that neither its President Rahul Gandhi nor any other party functionary had ever used the term "saffron terror" and that its political rivals were levelling baseless allegations.

The party also alleged that the investigative agencies were being used as a rubber stamp by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre.

"People have no faith in the investigative agencies. The way they are being used for political purposes... these agencies have become rubber stamps of the ruling party," Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad told the media here.

"Everyone knows how the NIA, how investigative agencies work in the government... we have faith in our judiciary. The court's doors are open to all. And courts always do justice," he added.

The Congress reaction came after a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Hyderabad acquitted all five accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast case in which nine people were killed and over 50 injured.