IB still in colonial mindset: Book
Yet to come out of its colonial mindset, its time the Intelligence Bureau (IB), India's premier intelligence agency is revamped and remodelled on the lines of the British MI5, says a new book.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Yet to come out of its colonial mindset, its time the Intelligence Bureau (IB), India's premier intelligence agency is revamped and remodelled on the lines of the British MI5, says a new book.
The agency has become an instrument of the ruling party although it is supposed to be responsible for coordinating and supplying information on matters concerning security of India, says K S Subramanian, IPS (Retd) in his book 'Political Violence and the Police in India'.
IB's bugging devices were used not only against journalists, communists and others but were also planted in the parliamentary office of a ruling party member in the 1980's and later on even in the the Rashtrapati Bhawan", the author says citing memoirs of former IB Director M K Dhar.
Subramanian observes that the functioning of UK's MI5, is based on 'a clear unambiguous legal basis'.
Moreover, MI5 is directly responsible to an independent and empowered 'Parliamentary Oversight Committee', the security service having a statutory duty to provide the Committee with any information they require.
The Indian intelligence agency as such has no independent monitoring organisation, he says.
The book says the Indian intelligence agencies pursue their own 'information agendas' and strongly suggests the need for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to cultivate its own sources of information instead of depending on intelligence of state agencies.
The agency has become an instrument of the ruling party although it is supposed to be responsible for coordinating and supplying information on matters concerning security of India, says K S Subramanian, IPS (Retd) in his book 'Political Violence and the Police in India'.
IB's bugging devices were used not only against journalists, communists and others but were also planted in the parliamentary office of a ruling party member in the 1980's and later on even in the the Rashtrapati Bhawan", the author says citing memoirs of former IB Director M K Dhar.
Subramanian observes that the functioning of UK's MI5, is based on 'a clear unambiguous legal basis'.
Moreover, MI5 is directly responsible to an independent and empowered 'Parliamentary Oversight Committee', the security service having a statutory duty to provide the Committee with any information they require.
The Indian intelligence agency as such has no independent monitoring organisation, he says.
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The book says the Indian intelligence agencies pursue their own 'information agendas' and strongly suggests the need for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to cultivate its own sources of information instead of depending on intelligence of state agencies.
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