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LONDON, ENGLAND, December 16, 2002 : An Indian Muslim organization has stated that the British government has turned down its demand to ban the two UK-based charitable groups with close ties with Sangh Pariwar even as the Charity Commission said the allegations against them were under “serious investigation.” “We sent a 300-page dossier to the Home Office and the Charity Commission with clear proof that the VHP and its subordinate bodies in the UK had links with the VHP in India and were working for the same fascist mission,” Chairman of the Council of Indian Muslims Munaf Zeena said in a statement. “While the matter is under serious investigation by the Charity Commission, unfortunately we have received a disappointing answer from the Home office that these organizations could not be banned,” he said. However, Zeena hoped that in the wake of a recent television report asserting that the Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh and SEWA International raised funds in Britain for “anti-minorities programs and pogroms in India”, the British government would review its decision.

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