Shinde plans super-secret spy agency

Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde wants to set up an intelligence agency with a dedicated team of officers whose identity will always be secret.

Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde wants to set up an intelligence agency with a dedicated team of officers whose identity will always be secret.

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The minister threw up the idea at his first monthly press meet on Monday and promised more incentives for intelligence operatives, who have "a very risky job".

Shinde, who was a sub-inspector in the Maharashtra CID before joining politics, said policemen joined intelligence units after a stint at police stations and couldn't keep their identities a secret.

Home ministry officials said the idea would be discussed soon even as the minister - who will write to CMs to build consensus on the anti-terror body NCTC - indicated the plan was still at a nascent stage.