E-mailed video clips misleading: Vasundhara Raje

Contending the video clips of bicycles in the e-mail in which a terror group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's serial bombings here were "misleading", Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today said

Jaipur: Contending the video clips of bicycles in the e-mail in which a terror group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's serial bombings here were "misleading", Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today said the explosives were arranged in such a way so as to ensure maximum loss of lives.

Speaking to media, she said, "After reviewing the details of the live bomb found after the serial blasts, it was seen the bomb bag was uniquely designed to fit two detonators and two batteries and aimed at causing maximum loss to human lives."

Raje said, "Ball bearings like bullet pallets were mixed in the bombs," she said. The video details of the exploded cycle might be true and similar to the earlier blasts that took place in Malegaon or Uttar Pradesh, she added. "In the e-mail footage, the bag is shown tagged on the back side of the cycle and its front is mingled. Whereas the cycle found by the police shows a reverse picture," she said. Clarifying the issue further she said, "Our special investigating team supported by NSG and IB personnel are evolving their own theory. But we are not rejecting the e-mail theory."

Rajasthan to have anti-terror force

Against the backdrop of serial blasts in the city, the Rajasthan government on Thursday said that it would set up its anti-terror force and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of all Chief Ministers on internal security.

Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje also proposed a task force on intelligence gathering, investigation, coordination to acquire probe component and dissemination of information to the states.

Exchange of information among the states and with the Centre was absolutely vital on such crucial issue to reach to a conclusion, she said. Though every agency at the Centre was functioning in its own style there should be an inter-connectivity between every agency whether IB, NSG or the state crime branch, Raje said.

Recalling the Girish Chandra Commission recommendations on tackling terror, she said that its recommendations were yet to be implemented as there was a shortage of sleuths in the IB. The Commission had suggested the setting up of a data bank but it was hanging fire, Raje said.

Reiterating a need for re-induction of POTA, Raje said that Rajasthan would set up its own anti-terroist force and prepare a roadmap to deal with such exigency.

States like Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh would be soon invited to take part in a course study and prepare a model plan, she said, adding, former supercop K P S Gill would also be involved in a big way.(PTI)

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