How To Trace Mobile No In Bangalore?

Why hasn't the Indian government been able to trace, stop and take action against groups threatening North-East Indians in Bangalore?

• Personally I would expect that government would unleash police and intelligence agencies against elements who are threatening; open police help-lines to trace each threat and more... however both central government and state government are sitting silent while people from North East in Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad are attacked, threatened and shooed away... and lakhs of people have fled due to threats and incidents of violence/victimization. If the police / intelligence / central agencies treat it as a national security problem-- it wont take them much effort to organize sting operations to collect evidence against specific groups and people threatening NE Indians-- and to then either summarily jail them OR to run court cases OR to ban the groups/freeze their finances.

• Answer:

  If you look at it closely, there was no physical activity that happened in Bangalore, It was all a disinformation campaign conducted online. What you suggest in your question will work if there were anyone physically present in Bangalore/Karnataka who perpetrated this. Our police and security personnel are not equipped to handle this type of (dis)information warfare. What makes the situation worse is the low or almost no understanding of the situation among the media and politicians. The event is unprecedented. Knowing India's politicians and bureaucrats - they are capable of only knee-jerk crude reactions ( like the ban on bulk SMS and call for ban on social media). To tell that the police is not doing anything would be unfair. We Indians are now used to immediate trial in the media - with no regard to who is right or wrong. The first step for police is to stop the disinformation campaign. We will not know the extent of success or failure of this through the media - we are not supposed to. The next step is to trace through the thousands of SMS forwards and all other online information to find who was perpetrating the disinformation and identify them from the innocent ones who just shared this information with their friends. As you can imagine this wont be an easy task. Then to collect proof, finally prosecute. There is no use arresting without proof, the police is not even supposed to do that. If you look at how things turned out , this was a well planned and coordinated campaign. Don't buy into the Congress vs BJP vs RSS campaign that everyone is telling it to be. Those who say don't know it any more than you and me. These parties just don't have the expertise needed for this kind of campaign.