From correspondents in Delhi, India, 04:30 PM IST
After taking over the reins of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Ashwini Kumar Saturday called for police forces of all states to work jointly with the central investigating agency to combat terrorism in India.
"The prime minister has suggested that a joint working mechanism, intelligence sharing, between the CBI and state police is required," Kumar said here Saturday after taking over.
The new CBI chief also expressed concern over the declining standards of people coming from other state organisations to join the agency.
"People have been joining the CBI from other organisations, but they do not have the requisite expertise to handle crime cases. The standard of people joining from other organisations is declining," Kumar told reporters here.
The 1973 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer said the agency was fully equipped to take on new challenges.
Regarding a huge backlog of cases with the CBI, he said: 'It is a government agency and it cannot say no to any state government if a case is transferred to it.'
He, however, said only cases that have inter-state or international ramifications should be referred to the agency.
Kumar has worked with the CBI as joint director and later as additional director. He also had a stint with the elite Special Protection Group, the agency responsible for the protection of the incumbent and former prime ministers and their families.
Kumar also said the CBI would continue to seek extradition of the India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim. The CBI has been claiming that Dawood, the alleged mastermind of the 1992 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, has been hiding in Pakistan.
Kumar's appointment as the CBI director superseding the agency's special director M.L. Sharma has triggered a controversy.
Sharma, who was widely tipped to be the next chief of the agency, went on indefinite leave Friday.
Sharma, 59, an officer of the 1972 IPS batch, has served in the CBI for over two decades and was one of the three people recommended to head the country's premier investigating agency.
As per the directions of the Supreme Court, the post must have a mandatory tenure of two years. Sharma is currently left with only 10 months of service.
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ERROR CORRECTED: In my earlier response the last sentence should read "Note in this context that not a single act of terrorism is now possible after 911 IN THE U.S."
Terrorism is perpetrated with deadly precision of timing and execution, using both crude and sopohisticated devices and equipment, and heartless antinationals as executants. The question is whether the CBI has the will and the competence to outpower such terrorist organizations. The answer is a certain No. Note in this context that not a single act of terrorism is now possible after 911.
The new CBI has made a clean breast of two he facs,saying:"People have been joining the CBI from other organisations, but they do not have the requisite expertise to handle crime cases. The standard of people joining from other organisations is declining".If he begins with such a grand picture of his own organization, it is clear that an entirely new and extremely vigorous agency manned by professionals trained by foreign, preferably Israeli, experts, and with NO political interference,but only accounting for results to public, and with full, mandatory coordination and input assistance from all govts.,central and state govts.must be set up. TERRORISM IS TOO SERIOUS A MATTER TO BE LEFT TO AN OLD SETUP NOT EXACTLY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONALLY WITH A GREAT PERFORMANCE PROFILE.
If CBI wants to take up terrorism acts for probe and bringing culprits to book, with state govr. CIDs, it should publish how many political and other cases were solved successfully and whether the criminals were meted out death, jail or other punishments for their offcences and crimes; and also why there is an astronomical number of pending cases with it. Without satisfactory and unambiguous and detailed answers to these qns.with true data, it must not venture into terrorism cases, esply. since these cases tend to be clogged without progress, by political interference from which CBI is already suspected to be bedevilled.
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