‘Terrorists outwitting police forces, need to counter it’

The Centre has set apart ‘few hundred crores’ for this as also for strengthening special branches in the states as without actionable intelligence, it was difficult to detect and prevent such incidents of terror strikes.

He said the augmentation of central intelligence agencies, which were facing a depletion in its strength, was also placed on a ‘fast-track’ to check misuse of globalisation and technological advancements.

An audit would also be carried out this time of all the state police forces to ensure that the money given to them was spent on improving intelligence gathering.

“One has to understand that nearly 50 persons would have been involved in carrying out the recent blasts in Ahmedabad. Now the information about them has to come out from the local police, which has not come,” he said, adding such terror strikes require well-organised network, logistics, planning and finance.

In absence of a formal federal structure to probe such case, the official said the Gujarat police was being helped by police forces of other states where such blasts had taken place.