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| Investigative journalists must wait, let sleuths do their job | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 9: The terror attack in Delhi high court proves beyond doubt that those bent upon striking innocent civilians through explosions and deadly weapons are still at large. In a country of 1.26 billion people looking for a group of terrorists is like seeking a needle in a haystack.
Those who intend doing politics over terror strikes either by pressurizing the investigating agencies to rush to conclusions or by trying to seek political mileage out of the tragedy by blaming the security agencies, must learn to behave as civilized and responsible citizens if they cannot behave as responsible politicians. If the security agencies are brought under political pressure to hasten to conclusions it is most likely that the real culprits would go scot free while some innocent, for lack of defence, would be put behind the bars. It must be remembered by every politician of the country that India has borne such blows in the past and can sustain the Delhi tragedy as well with fortitude and resolution. Those who lost their lives in the dastardly attack cannot be brought back to life, but everything within our means must be done to mitigate the sufferings and the loss of the bereaved families. This is not only the duty of the government in power, but of every citizen of the country. Having said that, we must also understand that vigil and security are a full time job while the terrorist needs just a few seconds to do his job. The World's most secured persons have been the US Presidents and despite the obvious foolproof security, the determined assassins have been able to murder a number of them. It is, therefore, a security imperative that investigations into terror attacks must take their own time. Despite the hi-tech investigative facilities, the master investigators have always depended on human intelligence and instincts. Human intelligence trickles down slowly, but steadily provided the investigators have a free hand and are not bothered about the next media briefing.
The biggest problem with our country is that those sitting in the air-conditioned studios of our electronic news channels seem to know everything. They know better laws than Soli Sorabjees, they are better sleuths than Sherlock Holmes, and they are better judges than anybody else in this country. These channels not only hold media trials and investigations, but more appallingly they also pass verdicts and convict people without even bothering to hear them. If the ongoing investigations into a national tragedy like the Delhi High court blast are also influenced by the people sitting in cozy newsrooms and comfortably handing down clues and leads, then the outcome of the investigations is already a foregone conclusion. Some rat will be beaten till he accepts to be a tiger.
The most serious challenge for those investigating the Delhi High court blast including the NIA is to make themselves immune to media influences. If they remain glued to the television channels to learn where their investigations must lead they would have committed a national folly. Remember the other day the Delhi meteorological office trusted a television channel reporting the magnitude of the tremor in the country's capital as 6.6 on the Richter scale. The poor duty officer was unable to get through to the seismic centre at Delhi University and instead trusted the television channel. He probably has already lost his job; the actual magnitude of the tremor had been only 4.4 on the Richter scale!
Kindly do not try to lead the investigations into this most heinous crime by trying to mislead them. Already there is a lot of confusion about the truth. There have been three conflicting emails claiming responsibility for the blast. Let the investigators do their job without anyone of us trying to play Sherlock Holmes. The death of 13 people and injuries to 93 others is no Arthur Conan Doyle fiction. |
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