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Saturday, Jan 07, 2006

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IISc. attack: `all links will be unearthed'

Staff Reporter

Bangalore is safe : Ajai Kumar Singh

BANGALORE: Commissioner of Police Ajai Kumar Singh on Friday said that the city police would unearth all links in the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) here.

He said one accused in the case had already been arrested and the police had established certain links and connections, and that they had clues about these links.

He was speaking at a seminar organised by the Bangalore Advocates Association on the High Court premises on "The role of the police in civil disputes."

Mr. Singh said Bangalore was safe and there was no reason for people to panic. There was also no threat to the security of the city.

He said the attack had taken place as Bangalore was a fast growing city and there was a tendency to target such cities.

Terrorists attacked such cities, as they wanted to damage the morale of the people and the police. "We should show them that they cannot demoralise us," he said.

Civil disputes

He said the problem of the police allegedly interfering in civil disputes had been there since long. Of the 100 complaints the police receive each day, at least half of them relate to civil issues.

He said a wrong impression had been created that the police were capable of doing anything, and some policemen thought that they were capable of doing it. He said a policeman could not interfere in a civil dispute until there was a court order.

Mr. Singh said he had recently issued a circular to the Bangalore police on the issue. The circular would not come in the way of police acting when there were cases of criminal intimidation.

Justice H. Nagmohan Das said this was an occasion to find out why people were going to the police rather than come to the judiciary to sort out civil disputes. President of the Advocates Association D.L. Jagadeesh, spoke.

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