It’s time to revamp the intelligence machinery Nitish Sengupta The Agartala blasts provide yet more proof, if it is needed, that a handful of thoroughly brainwashed people have declared war on the people of India, for whom they have no feeling of fellowship, and that our intelligence machinery has no clue about who they are and what their plans are. They seem able to launch assaults at places and times of their choosing. The police makes a few arrests after every incident but is unable to furnish any concrete evidence except confessions, which, needless to say, are extracted by force and are inadmissible as evidence in court. That is why many of them are released on bail after some time. All the big talk about "the complicity of" the Indian Mujahideen or Simi remains just that — talk. Most of the true ringleaders are...
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