Home Minister advises Prez to reject GujCOCA

TOO STRONG: Patil fears that the Bill is likely to be misused by investigating agencies in the state.

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New Delhi: A battle royale is brewing between the Congress-led Central Government and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi ahead of Assembly elections in key states. The Centre has rejected the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill.

Sources in the Home Ministry say Home Minister, Shivraj Patil has advised the President to reject the Bill saying the provisions in it are "too strong and that the Bill is likely to be misused by investigating agencies".

The Bill was passed by the Gujarat Assembly in 2003 and is modelled on the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. However, the Centre has been withholding consent. The President is now likely to send it back to the state Assembly asking for changes in its provisions.

Shivraj Patil, had said in an interview to CNN-IBN in September, that "the existing laws are tough enough to deal with terrorism, only that they should be implemented more effectively".

"When MCOCA was there in Maharashtra, blasts took place. I say that the existing laws are tough, enough but they need to be implemented more effectively," he had said.