Thanks to the ways the bureaucrats work in India, the most precious piece of information in the Ahmedabad blast investigation is lost forever!
It is the initial few hours that could have led the cops to the terror operatives. Instead, the cops waited for seven hours for VSNL, the concerned Internet Service Provider, to facilitate this crucial probe. Just five minutes before the series of 19 blasts shook Ahmedabad to its core and left more than 50 dead, a terror mail from Indian Mujahideen reached many media houses across the country.
The crime branch immediately tried to trace the mail but it was thwarted by red tape.
VSNL took its own sweet time to comply.
"If we had got the Machine Access Code (MAC) right then, we would have been hot on trail. The information reached us only at 2.30 am! By then, it was too late. The culprits had got enough time to cover their tracks," said a senior crime branch official.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
When Servants behave like Masters
When servants behave like masters, "even The God cannot help." The Supreme Court, observed this as it expressed its frustration over the reluctance of the Centre and state governments to take tough measures against bureaucrats and others overstaying in public accommodation.
The court wants the governments to amend laws to treat squatting in government premises as criminal trespass of public property. The army of servants, who prefer to call themselves officers, is obviously not willing to oblige and the politicians who share their loot through them only, are on their side.
The bench of Justices B N Agrawal and G S Singhvi was informed that the government has decided as not to amend the relevant Section 441 of the Indian Penal Code. Thus, overstaying in official bungalows will not be made an offence.
Following the refusal of the Centre and states to make the squatters pay, the dejected court dropped its advocacy for a stronger law.
"In our view, the stand of the Centre and the states is condemnable,” as the trend of unauthorised occupation of official accommodation, is on the rise, it said.
"The whole government machinery is corrupt. We may lay down the law, but who will implement it? It has to be done by the clerks”. The secretaries and joint secretaries have no guts to go against the clerks. The law is there, the statute is there, but the system has become non-functional," it said.
The SC, frustrated by the determination of politicians and bureaucrats to stay put in subsidised accommodation beyond their eligibility, had proposed amendment last year, saying that only "third degree method" would work with the heedless and well-connected lot.
The court wants the governments to amend laws to treat squatting in government premises as criminal trespass of public property. The army of servants, who prefer to call themselves officers, is obviously not willing to oblige and the politicians who share their loot through them only, are on their side.
The bench of Justices B N Agrawal and G S Singhvi was informed that the government has decided as not to amend the relevant Section 441 of the Indian Penal Code. Thus, overstaying in official bungalows will not be made an offence.
Following the refusal of the Centre and states to make the squatters pay, the dejected court dropped its advocacy for a stronger law.
"In our view, the stand of the Centre and the states is condemnable,” as the trend of unauthorised occupation of official accommodation, is on the rise, it said.
"The whole government machinery is corrupt. We may lay down the law, but who will implement it? It has to be done by the clerks”. The secretaries and joint secretaries have no guts to go against the clerks. The law is there, the statute is there, but the system has become non-functional," it said.
The SC, frustrated by the determination of politicians and bureaucrats to stay put in subsidised accommodation beyond their eligibility, had proposed amendment last year, saying that only "third degree method" would work with the heedless and well-connected lot.
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