Reading parts of the judgment slamming the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for miserably failing to prove allegations against the accused – all of whom, including Swami Aseemanand, were acquitted – Jaitley said the investigation was carried out between 2007-09 when the UPA was in power.

Jaitley said wrong set of people were "framed" by forging evidence and the entire Hindu community was "smeared", something, he added, that happened for the first time in history.