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Patil favours federal security agency
Home Minister Shivraj Patil will make a forceful pitch for a separate authority to deal with crimes threatening the country's security in a conclave of chief ministers to be held shortly.
- IANS
- Published: 22:08 July 27, 2008
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New Delhi: Home Minister Shivraj Patil will make a forceful pitch for a separate authority to deal with crimes threatening the country's security in a conclave of chief ministers to be held shortly.
Highly placed sources said yesterday that such a move was necessary in the light of the terror attacks that have rocked major cities in the country.
"Patil will work to arrive at a consensus among the chief ministers when the meeting takes place," said a senior home ministry functionary.
Similar request
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too has voiced a similar request in the backdrop of well-coordinated terrorist attacks across India in the last two years. Both Manmohan Singh and Patil are expected to visit Ahmadabad today to assess the situation in the aftermath of Saturday's serial blasts in the city. The prime minister will also meet the injured in the city hospitals. "Such a body is important to face the challenges faced by both the security and intelligence establishments in coping with new-age terror, especially attacks with an element of surprise," said the ministry official.
After a meeting with Singh to take stock of the back-to-back bombings in Bangalore and Ahmadabad, Patil said it was important that there was no backlash and that peace and tranquility prevailed.
"The central government is very sorry for what has happened yesterday. Our hearts go out to the families of those who have suffered," he said.
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"The most important thing today is to see that peace and tranquillity in Gujarat is not disturbed, peace and tranquillity in any part of the country is not disturbed. The state government is taking steps to see that no mischief is perpetrated and nothing is done to [derail] peace."
E-mail: US national alerts police
A team of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Sunday went to Navi Mumbai to probe claims by an American national living there that his e-mail ID had been hacked by unknown people to send an email in the name of 'Indian Mujahideen' warning of bombings minutes before the Ahmadabad serial blasts.
An ATS team rushed to Sanpada suburb in Navi Mumbai, adjacent to Mumbai, where the US national, identified as 48-year-old Callis Q, lives.
An official of Navi Mumbai police said that the American national was a tenant in one of the flats in the posh Gunina Apartments for the past six months.
Police personnel have been deployed in Gunina Apartments.
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