Mangalore: The retired judge of Karnataka High Court and a Social activist, M.F. Saldanha has condemned the attack on a local Christian house (Surathkal) during the Christmas festival, as ‘savage’ in quality, and blamed the city police and Dakshina Kannada district administration for apathy, inn a press meet held on Monday.

He was referring to anti-social attack at Surathkal, and also to the nuisance committed on Hebron Church at Haleangadi on Dec 28.

Justice Saldanha charged that the Police department had been ‘saffronised’, as also Dakshina Kannada administration.

Labhu Ram, SP has been transferred to Davanagere.

He (MFS) criticized DCO for taking no preventing measures against church vandals. The Law Enforcement machinery (police) had failed in its task of safeguarding (Christian) people, he fumed.

It was ‘state terrorism’ to him. After church attacks of 2008, there were as many as 1,337 in stances where pastors and prayer groups were targeted in the state, of Karnataka, that he singled out for not taking preventive steps against communal violence.

Pastor Walter Maben accused the police of not making accurate FIRs, but insisting on what they wrote as proper, in spite of investigation findings. At Hebron, attackers went into a kitchen to spoil things there.

MFS referred to several drawbacks he showed in a letter to DGP, about FIRs.