From Yahoo News/AFP:NEW DELHI (AFP) – The Indian government on Tuesday sought parliament's approval for a national agency to investigate major militant attacks such as last month's assaults on Mumbai.
The proposed agency would come after decades of opposition from India's 29 states, which have long argued such a body would allow the national government to usurp their local law enforcement powers.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram introduced the bill which, if turned into law, would establish a National Investigations Agency, styled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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My Comment: India clearly needs a federal police agency to handle crimes and terrorism that travels from one Indian province to the other. The present system clearly does not work.
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