Delhi Police has a lot to answer for



The deadly Delhi High Court blast on Wednesday morning is a clear indicator that indigenous terror groups, or so-called remnants of Indian Mujahideen, have re-grouped. They have overcome difficulties with improvised explosive device (IED) hardware, and they now have the capability to strike at regular intervals all over the country. The national capital is no stranger to terror attacks and a large number of them are still lying unsolved with the Delhi Police. This question the Delhi Police must answer now that innocents have been killed and scores injured by a brief case bomb on Wednesday.

Relatives of a Delhi high court blast victim at the RML Hospital in New Delhi. PTI

Notwithstanding the claims of Delhi Police, key perpetrators are at large in the following cases: Diwali bomb blasts on October 29, 2005; Jama Masjid bomb blast on April 14, 2006; Mehrauli blast on September 27, 2008; Jama Masjid firing and car bomb blast on September 19, 2010 and explosion outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011.

Unsolved terror cases embolden terrorists to take chances with the law enforcement agencies. It is not without reason that the Home Ministry handed over the investigation of the latest blast to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Mumbai police could take cover after the blast on July 13 by saying that  it had got no prior intelligence, but the Delhi Police does not have that convenient excuse.

The fact is that the Intelligence Bureau had alerted Delhi Police once the National Security Guard’s (NSG) final report in July on May 25 Delhi High Court explosion indicated that it was no crude bomb but a lethal device. The NSG found the device contained nearly 1.5 kg of ammonium nitrate, which was mixed with PETN explosive and diesel fuel oil. The device had a timer with two detonators. Delhi was fortunate that the detonators caught fire and the exploded but not the core charge. At that point, top Home Ministry officials alerted the Delhi Police that the incident could be a dry run for future attacks in Delhi.

Sketch of the suspects in the Delhi HC blast. PTI

Either the Delhi Police’s special cell, which is in charge of investigating terror cases, did not take this advice seriously or they simply had no clue about the culprits. It does not take a rocket scientist to predict that Delhi is a top target for terrorists in the sub-continent after Mumbai. Even the Jama Masjid car bomb on the second anniversary of Batla House encounter was enough to give sleepless nights to security though in this incident the detonator had caught fire too. The 13/7 Mumbai blasts showed that indigenous terrorists may have had overcome the detonator difficulty and the Delhi High Court blast on Wednesday only confirms it.

Policemen stand outside the Delhi high court. HT/Sunil Saxena

It is entirely possible that forces across Indian borders either helped them technically through Skype calls or even supplied them with detonators through sleeper spy modules. However, the response of the Delhi Police was predictable after the May 25 incident: teams were sent out to Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to find out whether friends of deceased terrorist Atif Ameen were still active and technical inputs were used to scan through call data records. While one hopes that the NIA nails the culprits behind the heinous attack in Delhi, the Madhya Pradesh police did teach a lesson to our law enforcement agencies this June in how to fight terror.

The arrest of 10 Students’ Islamic Movement of India men, who were out to target the three Allahabad high court judges who gave the Ayodhya dispute judgment, was done on the basis of manual intelligence and pavement thumping, not stand-off software and technical intelligence. The arrest of Abu Faisal alias Doctor, who ran Alpha Medical Store in East Andheri, Mumbai, along with his mentor Izzazuddin of Karneli in Madhya Pradesh revealed that Abdus Subhan Qureshi, the key Indian Mujahideen mastermind, module was still alive. This self-help financed module was found to have linkages with a cleric in Saudi Arabia with Izzazuddin as the link man. The NIA will have to think de novo if they have to solve the latest carnage in Delhi. The Delhi Police model does not work anymore.

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  • jack

    There is something fundamentally wrong the way we are tackling terrorists.We ,also,have a unenviable geogradhical location of lying next to ‘world’s safest terrorist haven’ Pakistan.For Islamic terrorism,the professed enemies are the USA(because that is most powerful western country),UK,all the West,Israel,India,Russia and who knows,in future China also.So,we will always be target,for years to come.Each country has evolved its terror fighting strategy and plans.Almost everybody has a more effective strategy than ours.Ours is always a knee jerk reaction.The security agencies start hovering over Muslim ghettoes in Delhi,Mumbai and likes of Azamgarh/Saharanpur etc.This also causes a fear reaction ,among our normal Muslim population.When political parties,particularly Congress,start viewing this from a partisan angle,the security agencies just give up.
    And nothing happens till the next blast.In our own country,virulent propaganda goes on against India in numerous ghettoes,with active support from global terrorists groups;recruiting volunteers from locals.Our security agencies are aware of this,but would not act.In most of our Muslim ghettoes,there is no presence of our intelligence agencies.
    We should follow UK’s example.Beside the improved capability of policing and well cordinated intelligence,the govt and security agencies are actively involved,engaged and present in all Muslim ghettoes.Not only this is reassuring for normal Muslim,it also gives tham access to profile potential terrorists and trace them properly.The difference in results is there.They are able to stop the terrorists in their track,most of the time;while we move from ‘blast to blast’.

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    vinod pandey Reply:

    Jack,
    Yeah, we are content to survive or, may be, destined to survive, between two blasts……only if we knew their timings and place of occurrence!…….and that is what Intelligence is all about.
    People entrusted with the job of governance do not have the will to govern. After all, they are there to enjoy some perquisites that come with the job.
    The bureaucracy has this knack of imitating its political masters. No wonder , the decline of India is so very palpable.

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    Rakesh Katyal Reply:

    Delhi Police is always looking for orders from MHA. Their focus shifts from terror to Ramdev to Anna depending upon directions from MHA. I feel it will be more appropriate to say MHA has lot to Answer.

    Also the corruption in Police has reached such limits that even a constable will not touch anything in which he cannot make an extra buck. And definitely in chasing terrorists they have no financial gains.

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    Praveen Saxena Reply:

    The Delhi Police could not trace the money trail in the Votes for Cash scam even though All accused and currency , as per its own version of the alleged crime , are in its custody . Do you expect it trace terrorists ?
    Can we prevent terror , in the intense poiliticised atmosphere? Are not elections in UP more important than anything else? Now will not the Congress Party direct Digvijay Singh to sieze the initiative from Mulayam Singh ? Will not Digvijay Singh move two steps forward ?

  • sujat

    Our Govt is busy with witch-hunt, engaging all its machinery to defame Anna Ramdev and team.
    So if few blasts like this happen, we have to bear with it. They are too busy to think about common man safety. Infect they don’t want common man to fill safe outside their home. Otherwise Amadmi will come out to the straight in support of truth will make their life measurable, like they did in the recent past.

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  • Dorai

    The Delhi Police do not have manpower and resources to handle and deal with terrorism. All their focus is on the real danger facing India. i.e: Anna Hazare, Team Anna, Baba Ramdev etc. !!!!!

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  • s chadha

    why the delhi police ? i think that police all over is certainly not prepared . equipped . trained . motivated to deal with this challenge . APART FROM THEM LACKING THE ABOVE UNFORTUNATELY THE POLITICAL WILL WHICH IS VERY –RATHER THE MOST IMPORTANT –IS TOTALLY MISSING . If you saw pc / hm in parliament after yesterday blasts , he was just mouthing platitudes –we seem to have heard it all before . the fight against terror has also become a part of the minority vote bank politics—we require stricter laws but we cannot di this because the muslim sensibilities are involved . We require the police to be given a free hand and then they should be held accountable –politiciastion of the police precludes this . Unfortunately if you even look at the defence forces( the last bastion of state power ) they seem to be underequipped . undermanned and i feel with due respects not a force they are about 20 years back —example they are fighting for modern equipment / upgradation since 20 years back with no results .
    Terror is a very important issue which requires a common consensus of all parties and general society but our politicians put their power equations uppermost and not indias intersts —there is no doubt that the islamic terror is a threat in india , it is emanating outside and is being supported locally – the madrassas even in pakistan are recognised as the source of this with its teaching of a warped type of islam –same is here . what has the govt done about this or is it for obvious reasonds skirting the issue? The spread of terror in the world has kept pace with the spread of this morphed form of islam —not all muslims are terrorists but if a small minority is even so inclined and then supported by terror from across the border then there is a problem / threat to the indian union
    we all know that in days to come . with the departure of the usa from afganistan the terror groups will turn their attention to india /9 the rise of terrorist activity in the kashmir valley was the aftermath of the ussr withdrwal from afghanistan ?)- are we prepaRED FOR THIS ? LOOking at present scenario the answer is clear –no .

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  • Abhi

    “So,we will always be target,for years to come.Each country has evolved its terror fighting strategy and plans.”
    We have too. We fight for the aam aadmi and stash away 198000 crores of rupees belonging to the aam aadmi in Swiss banks.

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    abhi Reply:

    “Each country has evolved its terror fighting strategy and plans”.
    We have too. We always say these people are cowards and our PM says we shall not tolerate any future attacks. Then we go to sleep.

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  • http://nuclearsupremacyforindiaoverus.blogspot.com Satish Chandra

    (Continued)
    It is folly for India to think that India’s defence or India can get any where without destroying RAW first which means the simultaneous nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York. India has already emplaced its nuclear warheads in these three cities. I said above that the warheads have almost certainly been sabotaged by RAW. There remained the possibility that they will work. The fact that CIA kingpin K. Subrahmanyam staged his fake death right after India said its nuclear warheads have been emplaced in a number of cities/countries (he was in Orlando, Florida a couple months ago) makes it more likely that the warheads will work. India also said a few weeks ago that the warheads already emplaced in U. S. cities are way beyond the five or six I have mentioned. India should trigger the warheads in New Delhi, Washington and New York without delay and trigger the warheads in other U. S. cities if there is any retaliation.//

    K. Subrahmanyam’s staging his fake death and fleeing to the United States does not necessarily mean that the warheads have not been sabotaged; India’s adoption of what I urged — pre-positioning nuclear warheads in U. S. cities — meant that RAW’s sabotage of India’s defence by sabotaging the development of delivery vehicles had ended and he faced punishment for his crimes against me and sabotage of India’s defence. But RAW continues its crimes against me and sabotage of India’s defence. Aside from the sabotage of the warheads themselves, there is the possibility — which is a virtual certainty — of RAW or other traitors informing the U. S. of the exact locations of the warheads in U. S. cities. These risks can be cleared by triggering the warheads right away; the longer India waits to trigger them, the greater the risks while there are no benefits from waiting.//

    There is a lot of bamboozlement about “sanctions” if India tests the warheads at Pokhran. I have shown in my blog that the things that the U. S. and other countries will stop selling India should not be buying in the first place even if they are offered on a platter and free of charge, how exports to our enemies are unnecessary and harmful and how India’s economy can grow 30% per year or more.//

    September 13, 2011: A PTI report says “Army, IAF should reconcile differences on assets: Antony: … The army contends that it should control [the Mi-35 attack helicopters] … whereas the IAF doesn’t want to lose them … This effort should be among yourselves … He said if the forces wanted, the Ministry “could also play a limited role” in the reconciliation process.” What he is saying is that the forces can test India’s nuclear warheads as a routine matter at Pokhran without reference to any one in New Delhi — as I said above should be done — and don’t have to test them by triggering them in New Delhi, Washington and New York. This does not end the sabotage of India’s defence. So long as RAW exists, neither India’s defence nor India can get anywhere. RAW has to be rubbed out, that is, all its present and past employees killed (see ‘What You Should Know About RAW’ above). This still requires the simultaneous nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York.//

    The destruction of RAW will be just a way station to the destruction of other criminals. Later, all present and past CIA employees will have to be killed. All present and past American presidents have participated in the CIA’s crimes against India and after a trial in India — a wave of my hand will be trial enough — they will be impaled on “shoolis” in a stadium full of people. How about the crimes of the Jews and Americans in general (see my blog)? Ah, you just wait and see.//

    September 14, 2011: With the ability to destroy New Delhi, Washington and New York, India’s forces should be reporting directly and openly to me instead of saying “We have a set of advisers” and it is “dangerous territory” to refer to me or what I say. A nuclear warhead of the type emplaced in U. S. cities has to be tested and RAW has to be destroyed without delay.//

    Satish Chandra

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    Satish Chandra Reply:

    RAW is removing my posted comments. The content above is the second part of a comment posted in two parts because of its length. The first part, necessary to understand the second part, has been removed by RAW. In its place, see my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy for India Over U. S.’ which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title. Within that, look for ‘What You Should Know About RAW’.

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    Satish Chandra Reply:

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008
    What You Should Know About RAW
    I have written (for example in my article titled ‘India’s Technological and Economic Emancipation’ in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’ about the continued control of Indian intelligence agencies by British and later American intelligence agencies after 1947. India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was split off from the Intelligence Bureau which had continued after 1947 to be loyal to the British. Later the Americans supplanted the British and RAW functions as a branch of the CIA against India. As part of this relationship, CIA-RAW exercises extensive control over the Indian media and, among its various activities, engages in sabotage of indigenous research and development to keep India dependent on other countries for defence and other equipment (the nuclear deal is just another CIA-RAW operation of that kind, though of a scope and with consequences far graver than any such operation till now).
    An example of this is a Bharat-Rakshak discussion thread about a black box installed by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in the indigenously developed Arjun tank that documented the sabotage of its engines during trials by the Army; such sabotage has been the basis of the Army’s rejection, on RAW’s prompting, of the Arjun tank in favour of imports (as I said in the above article, India‘s Army is the collaborator Army that helped the British rule India and, even after Independence, all its regiments and units have retained their former identities and regularly celebrate the anniversaries of their founding by the British). A CIA-RAW operative, who serves as a moderator on Bharat-Rakshak and controls the forum, recently locked away this discussion thread so that numerous posts that had appeared documenting the sabotage of the Arjun tank were covered up. The major metropolitan newspapers, on most of which CIA-RAW exercises extensive control, have made no mention of the black box — which was like the flight data recorder in aircraft — installed by DRDO in Arjun tanks and the shocking findings about the sabotage even though a report on this was provided to them by the Indo Asian News Service (IANS).
    There is across the board sabotage by various means by CIA-RAW to keep India down technologically, economically and militarily. RAW’s grip over India is comparable to the old KGB’s grip over the Soviet Union, with the difference that whereas the KGB worked for the good of the Soviet Union, except toward the end, RAW has always worked for its imperialist paymasters. The role of politicians in governing India is insignificant compared to that of CIA-RAW but RAW has no place in the public’s consciousness or in discussions of public affairs in India.
    An important point about the sabotage of Arjun is that people on the Arjun discussion thread on Bharat-Rakshak were aghast at the Army’s behavior and calling for Army brass being tried for treason, etc. but it will be a mistake to stop with the Army; it is RAW which is behind such sabotage not just of Arjun but of India’s interests, technological, economic and other, in a lot of areas. RAW has operatives in the Army at various levels but it is necessary to go to the root of the problem. RAW has to be destroyed and I have suggested that a brand new external intelligence agency be formed with the help of military intelligence (RAW is supposed to be India’s external intelligence agency but at least 90% of its activities are within India, against India).
    The destruction of RAW does not mean simply disbanding the agency and letting its employees continue their service to the CIA through other organisations, old or new, or in other roles. It is a mammoth agency with just the number of joint secretaries in the hundreds. It is India’s real ‘government’ and the politicians and civil servants largely obey its dictates. It puts the words in the mouths of cabinet ministers, etc., and determines most policies that are, erroneously, attributed to them. Any one, even a prime minister, whom CIA-RAW considers inconvenient is eliminated, if necessary by death, as I have said regarding the deaths of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and, later, Rajiv Gandhi in my article titled ‘How India‘s economy can grow 30% per year‘ in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over US’ on blogspot which can be found by doing a Google search with the words: nuclear supremacy India Satish.
    Over the past many years, I have shown how almost all terrorist incidents in India since 1983 have been carried out by outfits controlled by the CIA either directly or through intelligence agencies in the region, including India’s RAW. The Jain Commision of Inquiry, which went into Rajiv Gandhi’s death, acknowledged that the LTTE, which carried out his assassination, was created and controlled by RAW. It was an open secret that MQM, in Pakistan’s Sindh province, when it was known as a terrorist organization, was a creation of RAW. But the same is true of many terrorist outfits that operate in India.
    Another example of RAW’s multifarious activities, that I have described in press releases, articles and letters to the press since 1987, is its spreading heroin addiction and AIDS first in India’s Northeast then elsewhere to provide the United States with a population to use as guinea pigs for AIDS vaccine development, after the CIA was assigned the task of roping in a population for this purpose. I have described how Both Rajiv Gandhi (after being blackmailed with threats of exposure of the Bofors and HDW kickbacks by Swedish and German media at the CIA‘s instigation) and Vajpayee cooperated in this. But terrorism, etc., are the least of its activities; I mentioned those only because the existence of terrorism is publicly known. Its sabotage of India’s research and development activities, of which the sabotage of the Arjun tank is just one example, is among the deadliest of its activities.
    The nuclear deal and its various aspects — replacing indigenous production of uranium and reactors with imports, the capping, rollback and elimination of India’s nuclear weapons program, media control and buying up politicians, scientists, etc. for this purpose — is just the largest and deadliest of such activities, leaving out the 24-hour satellite surveillance and all the crimes, at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars per year for the past 31 years, against India’s greatest scientist, described in my article titled ‘How India‘s economy can grow 30% per year‘. The point is that all the tens of thousands of RAW employees are guilty of the gravest treason and deserve the death penalty. So do all those — politicians, civil servants and others — who are willing collaborators of CIA-RAW.

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    Satish Chandra Reply:

    The Delhi High Court blast was carried out by RAW within a couple of hours of my pointing to RAW’S sabotage of India’s nuclear warheads, to divert attention from it. See ‘What You Should Know About RAW’ below.//

    Just as RAW-induced cricket fever sweeps India and does no good and a lot of harm to India, replacing real victory and supremacy over white countries, for example, with fake ‘victories’ and ’supremacy’ over enemies, Hazare’s fake fast was entertainment — the arrests and conflicts with government are meant to generate support and make/keep him a hero — sponsored by CIA-RAW to keep India ‘Gandhian’ — and so poor, weak and enslaved — due to the recent disclosure that M. K. Gandhi, a lifelong British agent, was a homosexual who wrote to the white man “How completely you have taken possession of my body. It is slavery with a vengeance”. Nehru admitted to U.S. ambassador Galbraith that he was a lifelong British agent. In my press release dated May 31, 2011 I said “In a letter which appeared in Indian Express, Delhi, under the heading “The Organ and the Keys” two decades ago, I described how RAW was supporting the half dozen terrorist groups in Sri Lanka against one another, playing them like the keys of an organ, bringing them all under its control to produce whatever music it wanted. I have said Anna Hazare’s fast was sponsored by CIA-RAW (see my blog below) but now RAW is also supporting Baba Ram Dev and if it makes him prime minister, will keep the threat of bringing his office under Lok Pal and, with true or false charges of corruption against him, keep him under its control. The Intelligence Bureau, out of which RAW was created, did this for half a century under the British — instigating Hindu-Muslim conflicts and partition of India, etc. — and continues the tactic to this day. Other activities of CIA-RAW, the real ruler of India, are deadlier, such as sabotaging its defence and economy. … In the same letter in Indian Express I pointed out that a New York Times report shortly before the 1991 General Elections and Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination said that Rajiv Gandhi told the foreign media in New Delhi that the Indian armed forces had “gone berserk in Kashmir. Human rights have been violated in Kashmir”, that this comment of his was directed at U.S. lawmakers who control the CIA money which elects and keeps India’s prime ministers in office and that the Indian press had failed to report this comment, controlled as it is by the CIA. His assassination followed within days of the publication of this letter of mine.” The entire so-called freedom struggle under M. K. Gandhi consisted of such fake struggle with the government managed by the Intelligence Bureau after the British set up the Indian National Congress through the Britisher A. O. Hume after they had killed over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857, depopulating entire regions so there were not enough men left to till the land: The Guardian (August 24, 2007, Internet, report by Randeep Ramesh): “India’s secret history: ‘A holocaust, one where millions disappeared…’: Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10 m, spread over 10 years:…”; see my blog below.//

    Now for India’s real war of Independence. India has said that its nuclear warheads have been emplaced in various cities/countries such as New Delhi, Washington and New York. The nuclear destruction of these three cities, with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation, is the first step in the implementation of India’s National Security Doctrine. The only way the United States will be able to keep two to three additional cities from being destroyed is by doing nothing in return. Five years later India can finish the job with its coast-to-coast destruction. With the impending nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York, nothing else matters. I am India’s expert in strategic defence, the father of India’s strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, the world’s greatest scientist (my biography is in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 2011 and earlier editions) and India’s legitimate ruler and my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U. S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, answers all questions.

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  • Leon

    I thoroughly enjoyed your writing! Thank you!

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