This will not go down well with Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s government in Gujarat. The Centre on Friday announced it had returned for the second time a stringent anti-terrorism Bill framed by the state government.The Union Cabinet has sought three amendments to the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Act (GUJCOCA), announced Home Minister P Chidambaram at a press conference.
“Under the proposed Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Act, a confession before a police officer is admissible in a court. This should be made inadmissible,” Chidambaram said after a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“The Act also contains a clause stating that a court cannot grant bail if the public prosecutor opposes it. The court should have the power to grant bail even if the public prosecutor opposes it,” Chidambaram said.
The third amendment related to Section 20 (2) of the Act that the Home Minister did not specify.
“Once these amendments are effected, the cabinet will be in a position to recommend to the president to grant assent to the act,” Chidambaram said.
Chief Minister Modi suspected the Centre had a political motive in seeking the amendments. "This is what we have been asking for. But I see politics behind all this. Why does the centre have double standards?" he told CNN-IBN.
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