India’s Immunity To Fratricide

Deepika Jaitley

Last week, despite worldwide observation of grief over the 26/11 carnage, terror and anxiety prevailed all over the country. From the serial blasts in Assam, killings in Bengal and ambushes in Jharkhand and Manipur the entire momentum of events seemed unabated by the catastrophe that had left India stuttered shook and uptight only a year ago. Probably because this time around it's not coming from the outside so it's alright, is it? …

Of course what we did see on televisions screens were special programmes in memory of 26/11 tragedy, documentaries probing into the case and building up linkages with intelligence elements in the neighborhood, the much dramatized confessions of Ajmal Kasab and so on.

Also surfaced was the exceptional inefficiency on part of our police and intelligence agencies, fraught with corruption, laziness, and delayed dissemination of data between institutions: something we still need to do some serious doctoring upon… something we couldn't blame the ISI for.

From the situation in Jharkhand and Manipur it is quite evident that the police is not only dysfunctional throughout the Red Corridor but is in fact the primary target of the Maoist rebels.

The 12 serial blasts that rocked Assam leaving 61 dead and over 200 injured mostly targeted police installations and crowded market places. Six of them were simultaneous blasts in busy market places: Ganeshguri, Pan Bazaar Fancy bazaar and the District Court complex. The intensity of those blasts set off fire in several areas.

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