New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has announced that fast-track courts will be constituted to look into terror cases where Muslim youths are held accused. The move is being looked by many as an act to appease the minority votebank ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Responding to a query on the need to set up fast-track courts to deal with cases of Muslim youths held on terror charges, Shinde said his ministry has sent an advisory to states to find out how many such inmates were in prison and for how many years they had been there. "We are trying to find out. It will take some time," Shinde said, adding that the centre was in favour of states setting up fast track courts.
Answering a query, he said also the ministry was keen on operational control over Assam Rifles. He said the force was deployed 20-25 km behind the international border and noted that its operational control was with the defence ministry. "We are demanding control. Talks are being held though no final decision has been taken," he said.
On the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Shinde said the draft of the proposal would be placed before the chief ministers for discussion at a conference in June. "We have removed the operational power from the IB (Intelligence Bureau)," he said and hoped that the move would help address apprehensions of the states that have concerns over possible encroachment of their powers....
11:54 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Amidst demand for expeditious trial of terror cases involving Muslim youth, the Union Home Ministry has asked all states to set up fast track courts to take up such cases for speedy disposal. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Centre has sent an advisory to all states and is also trying to find out how many Muslim inmates (involved in terror cases) were in jail and for...
06:50 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Friday made it clear that former President APJ Abdul Kalam's acceptance of the mercy petition of an Assam death row convict was conveyed to his successor Pratibha Patil and she was not kept in the dark. In a statement, the Home Ministry said the entire file related to death row convict Mahendra Nath Das, including the minutes recorded by the previous President, were placed...
07:33 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Left parties on Monday lashed out at the government for providing armed commando cover to top corporate leader Mukesh Ambani, saying the common people have been left in the lurch as gruesome incidents of rape keep happening. "It is unprecedented that at a time when such ghastly and gruesome incidents of rape are taking place and people are demanding more security, Z-plus category of security is given to...
04:20 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the new entrant to the 'Z' category VIP security club after the Union Home Ministry recently approved an armed commando squad following threat perception to the business tycoon. The Home Ministry has tasked country's lead anti-Naxal operations force CRPF to take the responsibility with immediate effect after the proposal to this effect was cleared by the office of Home Minister Sushil...
05:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Three days after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) handed over the Italian marines case to the National Investigative Agency (NIA), a case has finally been registered against them. The First Information Report (FIR) will be presented before the special court in Patiala House on Friday. The MHA had on Monday asked the NIA to investigate the killing of two Indian fishermen allegedly by two Italian marines off...
09:53 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Expediting the pending mercy petitions, President Pranab Mukherjee upheld execution in five cases and commuted death sentence to life term in two others. Details of President's decision were not available immediately. Seven cases of multiple murders, including one in which a convict, who was out on bail on rape charge, killed five members of the girl's family, were sent to the President for final decision in February. The...
09:47 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Two days after the Home Ministry handed over the Italian marines case to the National Investigative Agency (NIA), the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday that it has not received any notification on the same. Sources had said the NIA was asked to take over the case after the Supreme Court of India had ruled Kerala police had no jurisdiction in the matter. ...
08:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Home Ministry on Monday handed over the investigation of the Italian marines case to the National Investigative Agency (NIA). Sources said the NIA was asked to take over the probe after the Supreme Court ruled Kerala police had no jurisdiction in the matter. ...
02:30 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Already flooded with requests for central security cover from more VIPs, the Union Home Ministry is facing a surge in similar pleas from VIPs in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab after the state governments withdrew security. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said trimming of security cover given to VIPs by the state governments had led to the sudden rush of people approaching his ministry for security cover after they apprehended threat...
11:44 AM, Mar 31, 2013
India's home ministry is examining the possibility of deploying Jammu and Kashmir Police along the Nepal border in the wake of recent controversy over the arrest of suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Liyaqat Shah, official sources said on Tuesday. ...
12:36 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Home Ministry sources said on Monday that the setting up a special court for the trial of Italian marines may be delayed. Home ministry has sought clarification on a Supreme Court order about setting up the special court. ...
02:32 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Delhi Police has submitted its report to the Home Ministry on the arrest of the alleged Hizbul terrorist Liyaqat Shah. Police sources said Liyaqat was in Kathmandu to meet a Hizbul man and was in close contact with a Pakistani Embassy official. ...
05:11 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The Union Home Ministry will order a probe examining the two version of the arrest of alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah, sources said on Sunday. While the Delhi Police sources said Liaqat was part of the terror plot to strike Delhi around Holi and arms and explosives were recovered at his behest, the Jammu and Kashmir government sources said Liaqat had surrendered and was returning home with his family after...
12:34 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said one of the reasons for not making marital rape an offence under the latest ordinance was that marriage is not deemed to be a contract in India, unlike in other countries. ...
09:00 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has dismissed reports of alleged differences between the Home Ministry and the Law Ministry over the proposed new anti-rape bill. ...
08:34 AM, Mar 10, 2013
In a big development, the Union Home Ministry has come up with new guidelines which bars foreign gay and lesbian couples from seeking surrogacy services in India. Furthermore, only those couples who have been married for at least two years can apply for babies via surrogacy. ...
09:36 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Union Home Ministry has come up with new guidelines which bar foreign gay and lesbian couples from seeking surrogacy services in India. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Home Secretary RK Singh has expressed his regret to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for the gaffe of disclosing the names of the victims of the Bhandara rape incident in Rajya Sabha over which the Minister faced huge embarrassment. Sources said Singh admitted the mistake as the statement, which was read out in Rajya Sabha by the Home Minister, was cleared by him. ...
07:33 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The Home Ministry on Thursday got Rs 59,241 crore in the General Budget, a modest eight per cent increase over last year, with an emphasis on providing new residential quarters and barracks for central armed police forces personnel. However, the Budget for 2013-14 presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram did not allocate any separate funds for the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre, which was initiated by the Finance Minister himself...
04:11 PM, Feb 28, 2013
