With the face of terrorism changing over time, the government today warned that terror groups might use “nuclear, biological and chemical devices”
Shivraj Patil denies that terror attacks have gone up under UPA regime
NEW DELHI: With the face of terrorism changing over time, the government today warned that terror groups might use “nuclear, biological and chemical devices” and favoured a multi-pronged approach to deal with the menace.
“Terrorists have begun to use military tactics...At present, terrorists are using sophisticated small weapons and explosive devices to perpetrate terror.
“In future, they are likely to use nuclear, biological and chemical devices and other mechanical and psychological devices,” home minister Shivraj Patil said while inaugurating a two-day conference of police DGs and IGs organised by the Intelligence Bureau.
The home minister said for creating a fear psychosis, terrorists choose targets which can lead to disturbance of bigger and more complicated nature. “That is why they appear to be attacking places of worship, so that conflicts between the people belonging to different religions or communities can be created,” he said.
Expressing concern over inter-state ramification over terrorism, he strongly favoured a central agency by amending laws but said that it was not possible till all the states cooperated.
“Let us hope that it would become available sooner than later.” Ruling out a POTA-like law, he said the relevant provisions of the repealed act had been introduced in the Unlawful Activities Act.
Patil denied that there had been an increase in terrorist attacks in the country under the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, maintaining instead that there had been fewer such incidents in the last four-and-a-half-years.
“Even if one incident occurs or one person becomes a casualty, it should cause us concern and should make us alert... What is happening in our country should be studied by us to find effective solutions to the existing problems.”
His statement comes in the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) charge that the number of terror attacks had increased under the present Congress-led UPA regime as the government did not have strict laws to tackle terror.
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