New Delhi, March 16: The Centre today asked Maharashtra Government to initiate stern action against “erring” officials of its Anti-Terrorism Squad for going public with evidence of cross-border terror links of two arrested terror suspects after the trail to their Pakistani handler went cold.
The state government has been asked to ensure that stern action is taken against the official so that such incidents can be avoided in future, official sources said.
The ATS came under fire from the Union Home Ministry for disclosing to the media more than required details of the probe into the arrests made on Saturday in Mumbai, they said.
The ATS had said that the phone calls received by the two terror suspects arrested on charges of planning attacks in Mumbai have been traced to Karachi in Pakistan. The two men were also associated with fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, it claimed.
–Agencies