Gujarat Govt seeks President’s consent for anti-terror Act

Gandhinagar, August 21: The Gujarat Government has urged the President to give her assent urgently to the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill to help the Government curb terrorism and organised crimes in the border state.

A resolution to this effect was passed at the weekly Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. The resolution says that the CM had made repeated representations, written as well as verbal, to the Prime Minister, seeking a Presidential consent to the GUJCOC Bill.

In a joint statement issued after the Cabinet meeting, Government spokespersons Jay Narayan Vyas and Saurabh Patel said there were no adequate provisions made in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act enacted by the Centre in 2004 to deal with terrorism, and the existing laws in different states to check organised crimes vary.

Vyas said while Maharashtra and Karnataka have effective laws like MCOCA and KCOCA, a border state like Gujarat has to depend solely on the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code.

“Gujarat being a sensitive border state, anti-national activities like terrorism, organised crimes, economic offenses, movement of lethal weapons and explosives and fake currency notes have posed grave danger to national security,” said Vyas. “A conspiracy unearthed by the police following the recent Ahmedabad blasts is not confined to only Gujarat, but has spread in other states.”

Salient points

• Confessional statements by the accused (before the police) would be considered as evidence.

• Provisions to award death sentence to terrorists and their abettors.

• Specific time period to file a chargesheet.

• Special courts and appointment of special public prosecutors

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