INDIA SUMMARIZED

HYDERABAD: A public interest petition urged the  AP High Court  on Monday to pull up the  Hyderabad police  and the state government for their inaction despite a prior warning from intelligence wings about possible terror attacks in the state capital. It also sought a direction to the state government to take adequate anti-sabotage measures to prevent bomb blasts and save the lives of innocent people. The state government's inaction in preventing recent blasts should be viewed seriously, the petitioner said. Despite intelligence alert about a possible terror strike in the city, the security agencies failed to prevent the twin blasts on February 21 at  Dilsukh Nagar  in which 16 persons lost their lives and 117 were injured, the PIL said. Petitioner B Uma Maheswar Rao, TDP general secretary from Vijayawada, sought direction to the state government to make it mandatory to install surveillance cameras at public places like malls, hospitals, cinemas etc. He wa...