USCIRF has placed India on CPC and watch list in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2010. Their report has drawn criticism from the Indian press. "The Pioneer", in an editorial termed it as "fiction", "biased", and "Surpassing Goebbels". It criticized USCIRF for projecting the massacre of 58 Hindu passengers as an accident. It also accused USCIRF of indirectly justifying murder of Swami Lakshamananda, a Hindu cleric and social activist.