Rs. 10 lakh reward for info that could help investigation
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister, P. Sabitha Indra Reddy on Saturday said she was confident about the police cracking the Dilsukhanagar twin blasts case and said 15 teams had been pressed into service for tracing the culprits.
Addressing the media after a high level meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, she announced a Rs. 10-lakh reward for those who would give information that could help solve the case .
3,500 CCTVs to be installed
She said the government had decided to install closed-circuit (CC) cameras within the next six months at about 3,500 locations in the city at an estimated cost of Rs. 450-crore. The government would make it mandatory to install surveillance cameras in malls, hospitals, cinema halls and other places which attract crowds.
On the progress made by the investigators , she said: “The Centre and State government are confident of achieving some breakthrough very soon.”
Denies laxity
Ms. Sabitha denied that the police had ignored any bomb threat call. The alleged involvement of Indian Mujahideen in the blasts was also yet to be established, she noted.
In all, 16 persons were killed in the incident so far and 15 bodies were handed over to the family members concerned. Among the injured, condition of five to six persons was critical.
Asked about criticism over alleged intelligence failure , she said investigation was under progress and if any laxity was found action would be initiated against those responsible.
The Home Minister however added that the State had stepped up searches and checks whenever Centre issued alerts. The vulnerable areas were scanned thoroughly only 15 days ago yet unfortunately the bomb blasts could not be prevented.
No arrest so far
Meanwhile, city Police Commissioner, Anurag Sharma said that no one had yet been taken into custody so far and Abdul Wasey, twice-injured in terror attacks, was not a suspect in the case. The city police team has merely recorded his statement and spoken to his family members.
Keywords: P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, DGP Dinesh Reddy, Hyderabad blast, Dilsukhnagar, terror strike, intelligence alert, surveillance
Few readers like appan wrote about vote bank politics , nobody is
stopping the police to catch the real culprits .Any specific community
or specific religion people are not stopping the blasts probe ,
Hyderabad police failed miserably in previous blasts cases, if they
know about real culprits with names ,addresses why cant they catch them
and shoot them publicly , its very bad and sad to spew venom always on
specific community.
If the Hyderabad police is not interested to nab the real culprits who
were behind the blasts there is no use of number of probe teams.
What happened to Mecca masjid case? What happened to gokul chat case?
Simply they are biased and targeting specific group of people.After few
days they will produce few innocent people before media saying that they
have cracked down the blasts case.Catch the real culprits shoot them
publicly or hang them publicly or cut their body into uncountable number
of pieces, no community or religion people will stop you .
A hundred 'crack' teams will not help if Congress is not interested in stopping terrorism. In vote bank politics, it is not what is good for people or how many are killed but how you get elected. And nobody knows that better than Congress.
Good plan; the more important thing is sustained monitoring,archival, automated tracking of KDs, carriers etc and display of those object files on dashboards withsome level of artificial intelligence to support fast operational decisions
Strange that Ms. Sabitha denied laxity. What were they doing when installed CCTV was not working since last 3-4 days due to wire cut. And now they are planning 3500 CCTVs in the city.
Rubbish, as if CCTVs will itself analyse the lapses and will take the action.
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