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OCTOPUS: Jana assures faster recruitment

HYDERABAD: Home Minister K. Jana Reddy admitted in the Assembly that there was delay in making OCTOPUS fully functional but assured that recruitment of personnel at various levels to the body, set up to deal with terrorist offences, would be completed in two to three months.

He told G. Kishan Reddy (BJP) during question hour that only 203 of the 1,590 personnel were recruited and the rest would be appointed in two to three months. He said the organisation would have eight wings, including intelligence and analysis, field intelligence cell, technical intelligence cell, operations and investigation wings and forensic science division and technical cell.

Mr. Jana Reddy said it was being examined to provide NSG-type of training to OCTOPUS personnel. Referring to Mr. Kishan Reddy’s statement that 300 youths from Kerala had been trained here by ISI agents, the Home Minister denied it and said that they had come for religious training.

At one stage, he offered to resign if it was proved that he had attributed the Vatoli incident in which six members of a family were burnt alive, to a short circuit.

Earlier, Mr. Kishan Reddy said that the State was facing a dangerous situation and links with ISI agents in Hyderabad were emerging whenever there were incidents elsewhere in the country.

He criticised the government for lack of progress in investigations related to bomb blasts in Mecca Masjid, Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat.

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