New Delhi: With investigations into the Mumbai serial train blasts pointing towards a Pakistani hand, the Maharashtra Government's view that the recent terror trend was part of Islamabad-sponsored jehadi terrorism stands vindicated.
The jehadi terrorism involved "luring and training" of a large number of Muslim youth by Pakistan and using Bangladesh and Nepal as active transit routes as part of a design to engulf India into the arc of violence, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had told the just concluded Nainital conclave.
In his presentation at the Congress Chief Ministers's meet, Deshmukh had underlined the need for a declared anti-terror policy as also "mainstreaming" of the minorities, education, intervention and handling of illegal migration problem.
Besides, he had spoken about measures to streamline internal migration because of "skewed development" in the country, an obvious reference to backwardness of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from where streams of people come to Mumbai.
To deal with the situation, Deshmukh had suggested provision of police custody of 45 days in terror crimes as also provision of filing chargesheet within 180 days instead of 90 days at present.
Besides special courts for prosecution of such crimes, he also wanted a provision for recording of confession by designated police officer to be confirmed before judicial magistrate.
Maharashtra has been affected by terrorism since 1984 and the recent incidents include the bomb blast in Nanded in Marathwada region on April six and the Malegaon blasts last month besides the Mumbai attack.
Deshmukh had also underlined the need for a federal agency to deal with terrorist crimes in view of their international networks as also to deal with interstate crimes.
The Chief Minister had emphasied the need for early implementation of Mega city policing plan for strengthening urban policies in cities like Mumbai and increased grants for modernisation of the police force.
With the serial train blasts exposing the vulnerability of the transport sector, Deshmukh wanted the sector to invest in security infrastructure.
Besides this, he favoured large scale investment in security infrastructure both for collection of intelligence and also for early interventions to keep the situation under check.
The Chief Minister stressed the need for evolving a legal infrastructure that would necessitate inclusion of security features in all projects, private or public.
As regards organised crime, he said that gang activity is at the "lowest ebb" in the megapolis and the hold of major gangs has loosened. There was presence of Dawood Ibrahim/Chota Shakeel, Chota Rajan, Arun Gawli, Ashwin Naik, Ravi Pujari, Fazlu Rehman and Vicky gangs which have links with real estate, Bollywood and cable industry.
He said at present many gangsters have disappeared from the scene and nationals of African continent are increasingly involved in narcotics trade and their deportation was
difficult.
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