In a very strong observation against the UP government's move to acquit the accused in the Varanasi blasts, the Allahabad High Court has said that it was only the court which was authorised to decide such things."Who will decide who is a terrorist and who is not? Let the matter be decided in the court", observed the HC. "How can the government decide who is a terrorist? Is the government encouraging terrorism by taking steps to withdraw cases against accused persons? Today you are withdrawing cases...tomorrow you will confer Padma Bhushan on them", the bench of Justice RK Agrawal and Justice RSR Maurya gave this observation while hearing a petition challenging the move of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government to let off those Muslim youths who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the Varanasi serial blasts of March 7, 2006.Nityanand Chaubey and Rakesh Srivastava, the petitioners, had moved the Court against the recent decision of the state government, which had circulated a letter dated October 31, 2012 to its various cells including the Legal Department and district administrations, to initiate the process to release the accused persons.The petitioners had argued that the cases were in advanced stages in various district courts and the move of the state government would only encourage those who were planning more terror attacks on the country.The primary objection of the petitioners was against the plan of the government to release Waliullah and Shamim, two Muslim youths who were allegedly involved in storing the explosives used in the Varanasi bomb blasts.For the record, the SP , in its election manifesto, had promised to release "innocent youths" who were languishing in jails for their alleged involvement in blast cases. This had helped it in gaining Muslim votes and winning with a thunderous majority in the Assembly election.Meanwhile, the BSP and the BJP have appreciated the HC's stand and said that they were sure that the SP government wouldn't be able to ensure amnesty to those who were involvement in anti-national activities.Former CM and BSP supermo Mayawati said, "I think this move of the SP government is against humanity. But the Court will not let this happen."Kalraj Mishra, Rajya Sabha member of the BJP said, "It was a dangerous move of the state government. We were opposing it right from the beginning. Now the court has said exactly what we were saying earlier."However, Tariq Shafique, a human rights activist of Azamgarh, from where maximum Muslim youths have been arrested in the last five years, said, "We believe the SP government is more interested in politics than releasing innocent youths. So it is not arguing the cases effectively. The government is supposed to prove in the court that the charges are false. Waliullah has already been acquitted in terror attack cases. He is serving jail because the UP police had also implicated him in arms act. Shamim is also a victim of police, which implicated him in false cases."