Vishwa Mohan, TNN, April 3
NEW DELHI: The Centre's decision to tell the NIA to move court before taking over RSS activist Sunil Joshi's murder case reflects what home minister P Chidambaram had said about the constitutionality of the central anti-terror probe agency.
Chidambaram had, according to WikiLeaks, reportedly told US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller in 2009 that the NIA didn't have enough legal protection as its powers could be challenged in court for violating constitutional provisions on Centre-state relations.
It now appears that the home ministry does not want to take any chances as any hasty decision at this stage may put it in a tricky situation. The ministry has, therefore, adopted a 'cautious' approach before suo motu ordering the NIA to take over the probe from the Madhya Pradesh Police.
Joshi, perpetrator of the Samjhauta Express and other blasts during 2006-07, was allegedly shot dead in Dewas, MP, in December 2007 by fellow Hindu radicals who feared that if arrested he may spill the beans about others' involvement in a number of terror incidents............... http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDExLzA0LzAzI0FyMDIyMDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
NEW DELHI: The Centre's decision to tell the NIA to move court before taking over RSS activist Sunil Joshi's murder case reflects what home minister P Chidambaram had said about the constitutionality of the central anti-terror probe agency.
Chidambaram had, according to WikiLeaks, reportedly told US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller in 2009 that the NIA didn't have enough legal protection as its powers could be challenged in court for violating constitutional provisions on Centre-state relations.
It now appears that the home ministry does not want to take any chances as any hasty decision at this stage may put it in a tricky situation. The ministry has, therefore, adopted a 'cautious' approach before suo motu ordering the NIA to take over the probe from the Madhya Pradesh Police.
Joshi, perpetrator of the Samjhauta Express and other blasts during 2006-07, was allegedly shot dead in Dewas, MP, in December 2007 by fellow Hindu radicals who feared that if arrested he may spill the beans about others' involvement in a number of terror incidents............... http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDExLzA0LzAzI0FyMDIyMDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
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