CHIDAMBARAM 2

The Home Minister said the prosecutor has indicated that
acquittal of two more accused in the Mumbai blast would be
appealed in the higher courts.
As for Kasab, the award of death sentence has to be
confirmed by the High Court and then the case is likely to go
to the Supreme Court.
He said the country did not create any Guantanamo Bay (a
US detention facility located in Cuba) or military court for
Kasab's trial which was done in a normal court. "I am proud of
our system," he said.
Giving details about the investigation, Chidambaram said
the investigative agencies were able to obtain enormous amount
of technical evidence based on the communication records of
the terrorists. The data was retrieved even from the damaged
mobile phones and "we were able to prove voice samples from
our side (but) not from Pakistan."
The terrorists' path from Karachi to Mumabi was
reconstructed, he said.
Expressing satisfaction that 2009-10 was largely
terror-free excepting the Pune blast, Chidambaram said "with a
little more effort we will be able to apprehend the accused"
in the German Bakery case.
He said the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of the western
Indian state of Maharashtra has cracked the Pune terror
attack and "we think we are in the process of apprehending the
accused sooner than later."
Chidambaram said Pune (incident) was not an intelligence
failure and the German Bakery was given the written advisory
but it ignored the warnings.
"Sincerely praying" that 2010-11 is a terror-free year,
the Home Minister said the National Investigation Agency (NIA)
is investigating the potential terror modules.
For the last year, "I expected you will fail me in final
exams. By and large there is an understanding and appreciation
what has been achieved."
He said the NIA is investigating the potential terror
modules. They recently cracked one in the southern Indian city
of Hyderabad resulting in arrest of Zia-ul Haq five days
back.
The Home Ministry has invested heavily in crating hardware
and software infrastructure. As a result the intelligence
gathering machinery is seamlessly connected. "Today
intelligence is being shared on a real time basis," he said.
He complimented officers of the Home Ministry who, he
said, have accepted the biometric attendance system and are
putting in longer duty hours.
He blamed the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
government for not filling large number of vacancies in the
Indian Police Service (IPS).
"We have troops but not officers to command," he said.
The Centre has now chalked out a plan of recruiting 150 IPS
officers every year for next ten years. (MORE) PTI NAM
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