At the same time, in the face of an alarming increase in the number of terrorist attacks, Manmohan Singh’s government has also indulged in a heavy-handed response to suspected Islamist terrorists, who are hauled off on flimsy evidence and killed before they can be convicted of any crime. Meanwhile, a commission that the government charged with investigating the state-condoned massacres of Muslim citizens in Gujarat in 2002 produced only a whitewash, absolving the perpetrators of any wrongdoing – and fueling a further rise in homegrown terrorism by deeply disaffected Indian Muslims.