The RSS and its political front, the Jana Sangh, were judicially censured in:

1. Justice P. Jagannohan Reddy Commission's Report on the Ahmedabad riots of 1969;

2. Justice D.P. Madan Commission's Report on the Bhiwandi riots of 1970;

3. Justice Vithayathe's Report on the Tellicherry riots of 1971;

4. Justice Jitendra Narain's Report on the Jamshedpur riots of 1979;

5. Justice P. Venugopal's Report on the riots between Hindus and Christians in Kanyakumari in 1982.

The following extracts from the Venugopal Commission's Report are very relevant to our present situation:

The RSS adopts a militant and aggressive attitude and sets itself as the champion of what it considers to be the rights of Hindus against minorities. It has taken upon itself the task to teach the minority their place and, if they are not willing to learn their place, teach them a lesson. The RSS has given respectability to communalism and communal riots and demoralise administration (sic). The RSS methodology for provoking communal violence is:

a) rousing communal feelings in the majority community by the propaganda that Christians are not loyal citizens of this country:

b) deepening the fear in the majority community by a clever propaganda that the population of the minorities is increasing and that of Hindus decreasing;

c) infiltrating into the administration and inducing the members of the civil and police services by adopting and developing communal attitudes;

d) training young people of the majority community in the use of weapons like dagger, sword and spear;

e) spreading rumours to widen the communal cleavage and deepen communal feelings by giving a communal colour to any trivial incident.

The RSS shakhas include in their programmes training in lathis, swords, javelin throw. Drills, exercises, parades and other activities are organised in playgrounds and other public places. All these activities are organised in the name of physical training. The aim behind these activities appear to be to inculcate an attitude of militancy and training for any kind of civil strife. They often cause apprehension, fear and a sense of insecurity among the minorities. It prejudicially affects maintenance of public tranquility.