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IMPHAL, MONDAY 13 OCTOBER 2014
Burdwan Blast
Ranchi calls for7 more CRPFbattalions
Probe reveals larger plot involving Jammu &
in Maoist affected districts
Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam
RANCHI, Oct 12
ASSAM, Oct 12
The investigation into the
Burdwan bomb blast in West
Bengal on 2 October opened
layers of terror modules spread
across four more states in India,
plausibly having links with
Jamatul
Mujahideen
Bangladesh (JMB) and alQaeda.
After questioning Amina
Bibi and Rajira Bibi, the two
women arrested in connection
with the Burdwan blast, the
National
Investigation
Agency (NIA) found links to
Bangladeshi terror outfit JMB
and also to al-Qaeda, whose
two bomb-makers died in the
same accident, which injured
a fifth member as well.
The connections and terror
links seem to have spread not
only across the state but also
across India. The West Bengal police reportedly arrested
six people from Barpeta district on Friday, for allegedly
having links with al-Qaeda
and JMB.
The police are of the view
that they have been trained
and given jihadi preaching in
the same madarsa, where the
two dead and three arrested
suspects sought training. The
terror wings have reportedly
spread their members in different parts of India,
including Assam, in wake of
future plots.
“The terrorists we picked
up were not given any task
by their senior leaders in
Bangladesh. They were asked
to stay put in safe houses
until their missions were assigned,” The New Indian
Express quoted Assam’s Inspector General of Police SN
Singh as saying.
Their arrest has induced
the plausibility of “Ayman Al
Zawahiri’s recent announcement that al Qaida would
spread its wings in Assam
along with other parts of In-
dia”, according to The Times
of India.
NIA, which is now handling the Burdwan case, has
been able to uncover suspected terror links spread
across Jammu & Kashmir,
Tamil Nadu and Kerala, TOI
reported.
While two more suspects
are being hunted, NIA is still
on the lookout for one of the
major suspects, Kausar who
is suspected to have escaped
to Bangladesh.
Kausar is understood to be
the link between the militants
and JMB.
Meanwhile, the central intelligence agencies have been
able to identify the mastermind behind it all. Abdul
Qader Sultan Armar from
Karnataka town Bhatkal,
trained at the al-Qaeda camps,
is said to be the one operating
the suspected terror plots
from its present base near the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The central intelligence
agencies have also stated that
the Islamic terror outfits of
India-Bangladesh are running
a “multi-nation terror module”. The claim is based on
the evidences procured from
the blast site in Burdwan and
the interrogation of the two
arrested women.
On the day India celebrated
Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday,
the West Bengal police arrested two women and also
took an injured militant Hasan Saheb - into custody,
after a bomb blast in a house
in Burdwan’s Khagragarh
area. Two men - Shakil
Ahmed and Sovan Mandal died in the blast that took
place while making bombs in
a rented house.
The investigation following the blast revealed the
militants’ plan of making
bombs and blowing up 25
different places in WB, including the Kolkata airport.
Bezbaroa’s 150th birth anniv celebrated
The state has urged the home
ministry to deploy seven CRPF
battalions in some of the
Maoist-affected districts which
have seen the worst violence
triggered by Left-extremists
since 2004.
Over 24,000 CRPF personnel (23 battalions) are
deployed in the state and are
engaged in anti-Maoist operations. But Jharkhand Police
claim that several districts do
not have enough central security force to fight Maoists.
Six districts in Santhal
Pargana division do not have
any CRPF battalion. In 2013,
Pakur SP and six security
guards were killed on a busy
highway connecting Dumka
with Pakur. Again in 2014,
eight people, including polling officials, were killed in an
ambush during the Lok Sabha
election. More than 400 security personnel were killed
since 400.
Top police officials in the
state had earlier raised the
issue of CRPF deployment in
Dumka, where one Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB) battalion is
posted, at security review
meets.
Koderma too does not
have CRPF jawans. East
Singhbhum district, which
shares border with West Bengal and Odisha, has only one
battalion.
“The state requires seven
new CRPF battalions. Our
forces have dismantled extremist networks in large parts
of the state. We went to the
remotest areas that were once
occupied by the rebels and
flushed them out. There are
some districts where we need
more forces to tackle them
better,” said DGP Rajiv
Kumar.
A senior IPS officer said,
on condition of anonymity,
the
central
part
of
Jharkhand’s border with
Bihar is conducive for Maoists to regroup and launch
attacks on security forces.
Palamu-Aurangabad, ChatraGaya, Koderma-Nawada and
Giridih-Jamui have the worst
terrain on Jharkhand-Bihar
border. “Few police stations
are situated 20-30km away
from the demarcated border.
But there are not adequate
police personnel to patrol all
the areas. It will be better if
some CRPF camps are
opened in such areas,” he
said.
“CRPF is specially trained
to function in tough conditions and has proper fighting
skills. CRPF personnel
played a crucial role in flushing out extremists from
Saranda (West Singhbhum)
which Maoists once considered a liberated zone,” said a
CRPF officer not willing to
be identified. BJP MP from
Godda Nishikant Dubey has
been demanding CRPF deployment in Dumka for the
last few years.
A source said Jharkhand
Police would deploy one battalion
in
Koderma,
Jamshedpur, Chatra and
Simdega (shares border with
Chhattisgarh and Odisha). “I
do not have updates on
whether the Centre has sanctioned any battalion as yet,”
said CRPF IG RK Mishra.
The demand has already
been forwarded to home minister Rajnath Singh, who had
recently visited a CRPF camp
in West Singhbhum district,
said the DGP. “I hope we
will get the seven battalions
soon,” said Kumar.
Government bans
firecrackers at Patna
PATNA, Oct 12: The district
administration has banned
firecrackers at the Patna Ganga
ghats during Chhath.
During meeting held to
review the preparations for
Chhath, commissioner, Patna
division, Narmadeshwar Lal
said a specially designated
teams would keep a watch on
the ghats. Police forces and
magistrates would also be ensured during the festival.
Chhath devotees would be
allowed to take their vehicles
up to the Bans Ghat while no
one would be allowed to use
Adalat Ghat for puja purposes, Lal said. Earlier
devotees burst firecrackers
during Chhath at the ghats.
Two pontoon bridges would
be
provided
at
the
Collectorate and Mahendru
ghats on the occasion, he
said.
Speaking on the security
arrangements, Patna SSP
Jitendra Rana said women
cops besides policemen in
muftis would also be deployed at the ghats. Taking
lessons from the October 3
Patna Gandhi Maidan stampede, district administration
would set up control rooms
and public address systems at
every ghat.
GUWAHATI, Oct 12
Students on Saturday paid
glowing
tributes
to
Lakshminath Bezbaroa, one of
the pioneers of modern
Assamese literature, on the
doyen’s
150th
birth
anniversary.
At 12:05 pm, thousands of
students across the state
started reciting Bezbaroa’s
famous poem ‘aami asomiya
nahao dukhiya’ simultaneously at a programme
organized by All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu).
The traditional drums set
off the proceedings in
Guwahati’s historic Latasil
playground, which has become a confluence of
thousands of students, academicians,
writers
and
renowned personalities from
different walks of life since
Saturday morning. Pro vicechancellor
of
Tezpur
University
Amarjyoti
Choudhury gave a clarion call
to students to dedicate themselves in uniting the greater
Assamese society.
Drug dealers allege graft in
State pharmacy council
150th birth anniversary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah celebrated at Nagaon
“In this hour of crisis, the
Assamese society can survive
by staying through literature
and culture,” Choudhury told
youngsters. He said its time
for the young generation to
come forward to save the
Assamese society by following the ideals of Bezbaroa.
“Bezbaroa showed the way
to the Assamese community
when the British took away
the right to use the language
in the state. Bezbaroa took the
lead in giving a new form to
Assamese language by integrating the languages of the
neighbouring ethnic tribes. At
the time of crisis, he led a
mission to revive the
Assamese language,” added
Choudhury.
He told the students to
keep in mind the main objective to help build a strong
Assamese society. Choudhury hailed Bezbaroa’s role in
enriching the Assamese literary world. He specially
mentioned about Burhi Aair
Sadhu, a collection of stories,
which every child in Assam
is familiar with.
-TNN
Government sacks med corp GM, suspends four
PATNA, Oct 12
The state government on
Saturday
recommended
suspension of Bihar Medical
Services & Infrastructure
Corporation ( BMSICL) MD
Praveen Kishore, an Indian
Revenue Service official, for
his failure to prevent
irregularities in drug and
equipment procurement by the
corporation. The government
also dismissed BMSICL GM
(finance and accounts)
Tripurari
Kumar
and
suspended four state officials in
this connection.
State health department
spokesman Anil Kumar said
the suspended officials include director-in-chief (health
services) Dr Surendra Prasad,
state drug controller Hemant
Kumar Sinha, deputy director
(industries) Om Prakash
Pathak and the then deputy
superintendent of PMCH Dr
Bimal Karak. Departmental
proceedings will also be initiated against State health
Society (SHS)’s retired additional director Dr D K
Raman.
These officials were members of the BMSICL’s
technical evaluation committee which did not red-flag the
proposals of drug firms, including those which were
blacklisted in other states.
The BMSICL, a state government
undertaking
mandated to buy drugs and
equipment for supply to government healthcare facilities,
Tobacco rules in Bihar
go up in smoke
PATNA, Oct 12
It was in 2010 that the Bihar
government notified Cigarette
and Other Tobacco Products
Act (COTPA) which provides
for imposing penalty on
individuals consuming or
promoting various tobacco
products. But no one was fined
under the Act in Nalanda and
Saran districts during the four
years.
State police fined only
700-odd people and collected
Rs 30,000 from them from
January to July 2014.
Karnataka and Kerala, where
tobacco consumption is not as
high as Bihar, issued over
15,000 ‘challans’ each during
the seven months.
Socio Economic Educational Develop- ment Society
executive director Deepak
Mishra cited the example of
Shimla to describe the impact
of proactive policing in this
regard. “You rarely find anyone smoking in public in
Shimla,” he said and added
policemen issuing ‘challan’ to
a smoker are certainly a deterrent sight, but such a sight
is rare in Bihar.
Cancer Awareness Society’s national president T P
Sinha lamented tobacco control is not on the priority list
of Bihar policymakers in general and police in particular.
Section 4 of the Act prohibits smoking in public and
provides for a fine of Rs 200
from the violator. Section 5
prohibits advertising of tobacco products.
A fine of Rs 1,000 has to
be realized from the violator
for the first time and Rs 5,000
for subsequent violations.
Section 6 prohibits sale of
tobacco products within 100
yards of educational institutions and to people below 18
years.
Sections 7, 8 and 9 prohibit sale of tobacco products
without proper warnings. A
fine ranging from Rs 3,000 to
Rs 10,000 has to be realized
from violators of these Sections.
But reports sent by civil
surgeons to state tobacco control cell suggest only one
‘challan’ was issued under
Section 4 in Bhojpur district.
Patna police penalized 180
violators till August 2014.
Madhubani and Madhepura
police fined 100 and 29 violators respectively while
Purnia police fined 4 for violation of Section 4.
The law also prescribes at
least three State Tobacco Control Coordination Committee
meetings under the chairmanship of principal secretary
(health) every year to review
tobacco control programme.
In Bihar, even a single meeting of this committee is not
held every year.
-TNN
has been in news since July
this year for alleged purchase
of drugs and equipment
worth crores of rupees at inflated prices. A PIL was filed
in the Patna high court which
directed principal secretary
(health) Deepak Kumar to
probe the matter. Kumar constituted a probe committee
headed by secretary (health)
Anand Kishor.
The government had earlier handed over the probe to
a five-member panel headed
by additional director (health)
Dr K K Singh which reported drugs were procured
by the BMSICL at prices
higher by 20% to 372% than
the prices finalized by SHS.
The probe report submitted to
the government by Kishor on
Friday almost ratified the
findings of Dr Singh panel,
stating the prices at which
BMSICL bought drugs were
higher by 10% to 300% than
the prices finalized by SHS.
The Kishor panel also con-
firmed the BMSICL conveyed the information about a
substandard anaesthetic to
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical
College
&
Hospital,
Bhagalpur, two months after
a Delhi laboratory reported it
to be substandard. Arvind
Sah, a patient at the
Bhagalpur hospital, in the
meantime died on the operation table after he was
administered the anaesthetic.
The government also issued a
show-cause
notice
to
Bhagalpur hospital superintendent Dr R C Yadav in this
connection.
Sources said the state’s
general administration department would now write to the
Centre to suspend MD
Praveen Kishore, who was
on deputation in Bihar, for
lack of overall supervision in
the BMSICL. Bihar Urban
Infrastructure Development
Corporation MD D K Shukla
has been given additional
charge of BMSICL MD.
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GUWAHATI, Oct 12: The Assam Drug Dealers’ Association on
Saturday accused the Assam pharmacy council of harassment and
indulging in malpractices while renewing licences of dealers.
The association said if the state government doesn’t take
any corrective step, dealers will resort to strikes and keep
pharmacy shops closed across the state.
Inconsistency on the part of the council in renewing and
cancelling licences have kept the fate of about 3,000 drug
dealers hanging in the balance, association members alleged.
It also accused the council of threatening and blackmailing
the dealers.
The tiff began in 2009 when the registrar of the council and
the drug controller of the state declared that licences of most
of the pharmacy shop owners were invalid due to non-submission of proper documents. Following submission of papers,
provisional licences were issued.
“After this, the council again declared that the licences were
illegal. We moved the court and following the court’s orders,
submitted the required papers to the council. Again, we received a letter last year from the council that we would have
to surrender our licences or face action,” said Bikram
Choudhury, general secretary the association. “This is affecting our business and livelihood,” he added.
“We had sent a memorandum to the commissioner to the
council and also met chief minister Tarun Gogoi, but nothing
has been done so far,” said Choudhury.
-TNN
Al-Qaeda tentacles in Assam
GUWAHATI, Oct 11: Highly placed home department officials
said al-Qaeda is trying to set up base in Assam. Militants of several
outfits in the Barpeta and Kokrajhar districts of Assam have
undergone training at al-Qaeda camps, they added.
The state government has already sounded high alert. District administrations have been instructed to remain vigilant,
particularly in the border areas. A high-level committee headed
by an Inspector General of Police-rank officer has been set up
to study the presence and threat of militant groups in Assam.
Meanwhile, three persons have been detained by the police
in Mankachar in the Dhubri district of Assam on Saturday in
connection with the Burdwan blast case. This brings the
number of arrests in the case to nine.
The six persons arrested earlier have been identified as
Rafikul Islam, Siraj Ali, Saikhul Islam, Johoruddin, Golam
Osmani and Sarbes Ali. They were arrested on Thursday after
their names were unearthed during the investigation of other
people held in connection with the October 2 blast.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate court here sent the six people
to 14 days of police remand. The two people who died in the
blast are suspected to belong to the Bangladesh-based outfit
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. The outfit shares close links with alQaeda.
Ultras posing as couple
worries Bengal CID
WEST BENGAL, Oct 12: Validating its theory that terror
operatives are posing as couples, the West Bengal CID has
discovered yet another safe house in Burdwan district where two
suspected couples were living on rent. Both couples, however,
vanished soon after the blast, DHNS reports from Kolkata.
The house’s owner, Sheikh Manimul, filed a complaint
with the police on suspicion after the couples’ disappearance.
He told the police that around three months ago a man named
Sheikh Taleb had rented the ground floor of his two-storeyed
house and moved in with his wife.
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Youth Secretary, MBC
Kiren Rijiju assures safe
environs for NE people
NEW DELHI, 12,
Union Minister of State for
Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju
today assured people from
North-East that the Centre will
take adequate steps so that they
get a safe environment in every
part of the country.
Rijiju, while speaking at
the 51st annual function of
Naga Students Union in
Delhi, said that the Union
Home Ministry would ensure
safe working environment for
North-East citizens "like it is
for others".
"I have been a part of Naga
Students Union, Delhi for
long and it is a matter of
pleasure that the Union has
been working tediously for
the students and people of
North-east in Delhi," Rijiju
was quoted as saying in a BJP
press release.
Delhi BJP President Satish
Upadhyay said that the party
would ensure that students
and people of North-Wast
region get "congenial atmosphere" to study and work in
the national capital.
He also said that BJP
would work for "assimilation" of North-East people in
the main stream.
In the programme attended
by nearly 2,500 North-East
students, Naga Students Union President J Maivio said
that the organisation would
keep working for them in
Delhi.
More JU students likely
to face police action
KOLKATA, Oct 12
The Jadavpur University
stalemate seems headed for
more trouble. Even as JU VC
Abhijit Chakraborty has
extended an olive branch to the
agitating students to bring back
normalcy, Kolkata Police says
it is “forced to act” on the basis
of mounting evidence that
several students — some of
whom who led the Hokkolorob
protests — were “openly
involved in illegal activities”.
Police are handling about
20 cases pertaining to the molestation of a second year
student in JU on August 28
and the protests that followed.
News of the impending police action comes just two
days before JU reopens.
Sources said the questioning of six JU students yet
again in Lalbazar on Friday
was after “specific analysis”
of the statements made by
them regarding the molestation after a university fest.
“We found certain anomalies
in their statements. Hence the
Women’s Grievance Cell
summoned them again,’” said
a source, adding that further
arrests cannot be ruled out.
Two engineering students
are already in jail custody in
connection with the molestation. The JU authorities and
Jadavpur police had initially
prepared a list of 15 suspects.
Now, some leaders of Festu
— the JU engineering students’ union —are also likely
to be questioned by the detective department over two
cyber crime complaints.
“We are sure that the VC’s
page on the JU website was
hacked. We are particularly
serious about a comment
posted by a student leader in
the Hokkolorob homepage
about the (molestation) victim. We have communicated
with the social networking
site in US through the required channels and we might
summon a few JU students
once we get confirmation of
our suspicion,” said a source
in detective department.
Sources said they will ascertain if certain comments were
made at a student general body
meeting four days before the
police crackdown, to “save”
the students who were involved in the molestation.
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