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UP to implement POTO within 10 days

The Uttar Pradesh government is gearing up to make the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance fully operational in the state in the next 10 days, a top official said on Thursday.

"All exercises relating to POTO like appointment of the designated authority and competent authority, setting up of special courts and constitution of the review committee will be completed in the next 10 days," Principal Secretary (Home) Naresh Dayal told reporters in Lucknow.

He said the officers being appointed as designated authority and competent authority would not be below the rank of secretary. The chairman of the review committee will be a serving or retired judge of the Allahabad high court.

To start with, the government will establish seven or eight special courts in different parts of the state to try offences under POTO. The investigating officers will not be below the rank of deputy superintendent of police, he said.

Though POTO is yet to become fully operational in the state, suspected cases can be registered at the police stations and pursued later in the light of the ordinance's provisions, he added. District magistrates and police chiefs are being informed about these provisions.

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