However, the government and the main opposition BJP sparred on the cause and effect relationship between the blasts in which 64 people died and the efficacy of Indian laws or lack thereof.
The FIRs registered in Jaipur under different sections of IPC related to unlawful prevention activities at public places, attempt to murder, waging conspiracy against the nation, and explosive act, a senior official said.
A hardcore SIMI activist Mohammed Sajid and his three accomplices detained yesterday at Udai village in Sawaimadhopur district by Special Investigation Team were being interrogated separately, the official sources said but they added that there was so far no major breakthrough in the case .
In New Delhi, the Opposition BJP said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advocacy of the creation of a federal agency for certain kinds of crimes merely covered up an abysmal track record in fighting terror, but speaking at a function in Jalandhar, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told the nation that respect for human rights should not be misunderstood as a sign of softness.
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"Manmohan Singh's bonafides in the war against terror are suspect," senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, while asking whether a federal agency under him to deal with terror crimes can really be trusted given his "track record" in the last four years.
Chidambaram however said the government had been misunderstood. "Although we respect human rights and laws and want these to be applied to everyone, our tolerance and respect of law should not be mistaken as soft approach towards terrorism because Government of India is determined to fight terrorism tooth and nail," Chidambaram said at a function organised by Hind Samachar Group of newspapers to disburse the Shaheed Parivar Fund. He said that terrorism had been successfully wiped out in Punjab due to the support of the people and similarly it would be wiped out from all over the country.
However, Jaitely was blistering in his criticism of the government's approach to terrorism.
"It is ironical that after being in prime ministerial office for four years the Prime Minister has finally woken up to the harsh and cruel reality that prevention and investigation of terrorism in India is on the verge of collapse," Jaitley said.
He said the repeal of POTA, not giving assent to similar anti-terror laws in BJP-ruled states, non-execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and "helping the accused being prosecuted under POTA for burning Sabarmati Express" raises a legitimate question whether a federal agency under Singh can really be trusted.
He also sought to know whether Singh will have the political courage to strengthen the content of India's anti-terrorist laws to make them more "terrorist-unfriendly".
Claiming that the Prime Minister and Congress had been opposing strong anti-terror law, he sought to know "will not the federal agency be helpless in investigating terrorist crimes if confessions of terrorists are inadmissible evidence and an easy bail is available to the terrorists under normal law".
Jaitley also sought to know what purpose would be achieved by merely changing the investigating agency, particularly when investigation and prevention of terrorism was to take place "under a law which is not terrorist-unfriendly".
He accused the UPA government of "deliberately" not giving Presidential assent to three BJP-ruled states -- Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat -- to operationalise the laws against organised crimes, while such laws are operational in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh (both ruled by Congress) and Karnataka.
"The effect of this is going to be that cases relating to the Mumbai train blasts and the Malegaon blasts will be investigated under the MCOCA but when accused are arrested in relation to the Jaipur serial blasts, they will be investigated under the ordinary law where easy bails will be available and confessions of the terrorists will not be admissible evidence," he said.
"The crippling of the investigation in the Jaipur blasts is directly attributable to the political motivated withholding of Presidential assent by the UPA government," Jaitley said.
The senior BJP leader also accused Manmohan Singh of using his "softness on terror for vote bank politics rather than for security considerations."
The BJP was willing to discuss the issue provided it involves not merely a change of the investigative agency but also the content of the law, he said.
"Our anti-terror laws will have to be made more effective and POTA will have to be re-introduced," he said.