The state's argument is that
the cost of providing security should be borne by the federal government or at
least shared by the state and federal governments in this case. Thus the
Maharashtra government had sent the letter demanding that the federal
government write off the bill sent by the Indo-Tibetan Border Security Force
(ITBP).
The ITBP had sent the
Maharashtra government the bill toward the cost of providing security between
March 2009 to September 2010 for Qasab, now lodged in the high security Arthur
Road Prison in Mumbai. Principal Home Secretary Medha Gadgil confirmed receipt
of the bill from ITBP.
The Maharashtra government
had beefed up security by deploying the highly professional ITBP commandos to
guard him. A large number of ITBP commandos are deployed in and around the
Arthur Road Prison Complex.
