Investigators do not need to feed headlines, they should get the story right - and credible
Written by Theindianexpress
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Oversharing is an affliction of our times, but surely we can do without the police8217;s ritual confessionals about the terror investigations, which serve no other purpose than to undercut their own efforts.
The recent revelations by various police forces across the country have clashed over key details like the exact nature of the organisation, the link between the various blasts, and the people and networks involved. The Delhi police asserts that the Uttar Pradesh blasts connect back to Indian Mujahideen, though the UP police, which has already decided it8217;s HuJI, demurs. Certainly, given the preliminary, amorphous stage that the investigations are at, it is only natural for different forces to chase up on different leads as they piece together a coherent picture 8212; but why do they feel compelled to confide all their shaky theories to the public at large, reinforcing the bumbling cop image when, in fact, they have done a creditable job of functioning in tandem and achieved a glimmer of actual success in pursuing their object?
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Ideally, intelligence-gathering efforts across the country should function like a single, perfectly working nervous system where information from various points is transmitted to a single brain. The much-discussed federal investigative agency might indeed act like such a hub, pooling disparate sources of information and coordinating all the sleuthwork. But the fact is that, currently, for states under different political dispensations to achieve an efficient working relationship isn8217;t easy; and it is commendable that the Gujarat and Delhi police forces managed to create the hazy outlines of a credible story between them, and name some names. Inputs from Ahmedabad helped the police to smoke out Atif, who allegedly engineered the Delhi blasts, in Jamia Nagar. But they undermine their own successes by shooting their mouths off.
The entire nation is invested in the outcome of these terror investigations and the police should do itself a favour and allow us to believe in it.
