In the absence of a central agency, police forces across five states are independently trying to track perpetrators and conspirators of terrorist attacks, right from those in Malegaon, Varanasi and Hyderabad to blasts in Ajmer and Jaipur. The states do share information with each other, but an official said the information flow is only a trickle.
Home Ministry officials acknowledged that the proposal sent to states as part of the Supreme Court’s observations on police reforms had met with stiff resistance from all states barring a handful of exceptions. Gujarat was among those that had opposed any move to tinker with the constitutional status, giving the states a free hand in handling law and order.
