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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Union Home Ministry awaiting Communal Violence Bill draft

Union Home Ministry awaiting Communal Violence Bill draft

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published Published on Mar 4, 2011   modified Modified on Mar 4, 2011
Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai clarified on Friday that his ministry was awaiting the draft of the Communal Violence Bill from the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC). “There has been some delay but we hope to get it by the end of March, after which we will study it in the MHA, before it goes to cabinet,” he said.

Mr Pillai was responding to a question, at an interaction at the Indian Women's Press Corps, on whether the fact that the Communal Violence Bill had been listed “for consideration and passing” in a press note, released by union parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Bansal, meant that the home ministry was bypassing the NAC. Mr Pillai said the bill was on hold and the ministry would await the NAC draft. It may be recalled that the original Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha had been trashed by the NAC.

Asked what the MHA's current stand on the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was, the union home secretary said, “There is scope for state governments to take a political call and remove large areas from the disturbed list. That political call is overdue.”

On the ethics of tapping telephones, Mr Pillai said the home ministry, in consultation with the finance ministry, will soon take a decision on whether the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) should be taken off the list of agencies allowed to tap telephones for investigative purposes.

He added that legally, across the country, around 8,000-9,000 phones were being tapped which, according to him, was a very minuscule proportion of the total number of telephones in India. “A very large number of these are related to terrorism,” he said, adding that action only needed to be taken if there was illegal tapping. For this, the government was taking steps to ensure that at the level of service providers nothing was being tapped in an unauthorised way.

The Hindu, 5 March, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/05/stories/2011030559840100.htm


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