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| Police radio-telephony system faces threat in J&K | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, MAR 28:
Jamming and interception of police radio-telephony communications has become a serious problem in Jammu and Kashmir, according to official information. This makes it posible to know what the police and security forces plan to do.
Certain instructions given to police stations in several areas in the troubled north Indian State through radiop-telephony comunication have, on more than one occasion, reached the groups against whom action was sought to be made. "No wonder, this has made the entire exercise somewhat ineffective, if not futile", observed a senior government intelligence specialist.
He said the jamming and interception of police radio-telephony coimunications had also become a serious problem in some other places, including the north-eastern region and Naxalite-hit parts in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Chhatisgarh. Experts have once again warned that law and order arrangements at critical times can be disrupted if a solution to the problem is not found. And this is what is worrying the police organisations the most.
The Ministries of Home Affairs and Defence have acknowledged the fact that jamming is done by "undesirable persons". Again, insurgents as well as naxalites are said to be mainly responsible for it. Both these Ministries, according to official sources, have strongly felt that it is essential to improve the telecom network considerably, particularly in States which have their border with Pakistan and which are suffering from the terrorist activities.
Another important problem, which has engaged the attention of the authorities as well as the political class, relates to the existence of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. Will it be amended to suit the requirements of the people in general and politicians in particular? Since the Act provides enormous powers to men in authority to take possession of licensed telegraphs and to order interception of messages, major changed may not be allowed in it, particularly in Section 5(2) of the Act.
They may not claim to have made remarkable advance in the technology, which could afford them the use of such devices as satellite-borne cameras and electronic impulse sensors or infra-red receivers. But the fact that he government's two spy arms, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB), have already gained much experience in the field of human intelligence gathering cannot be refuted. While technical expertise is relied upon for a variety of lesser collection programes geared normally to operations, the technical services wings of RAW and IB have an unusual collection of men skilled in lie-detector, phone-tapping and bugging.
The functions of the RAW and the IB are essentially executive in character and immune from dep probing by others. As their factual record is shrouded in official secrecy, it will be dificult to ascertain names of those political leaders, who were spied upon in the past or are being watched by the technical services units of the two spy arms of the government.
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