Ahmedabad: The controversial GCTOC bill (Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime Bill) passed in March 2015 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -led government in Gujarat has been approved by President Ram Nath Kovind. The reason for this bill being controversial was that it called the phone talks as valid evidence.

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The President's approval on this bill has been reported by Gujarat Home Minister Pradeep Singh Jadeja on Tuesday. He said that this bill was pending since 2004 when Narendra Modi was the CM of Gujarat. At that time the name of this bill was Gujarat Control of Organized Crime (GUCOC) bill. In 2015, the Gujarat government reintroduced the name of the bill to the GCTOC (Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime Bill) but retained controversial provisions such as tapping telephonic conversations to police and presenting them in court as evidence.

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Pradeep Singh Jadeja has said that the provisions of the bill will prove to be crucial in tackling the racket of terrorism, contract killing, Ponzi schemes, drug trade and forced recovery. With this, he has said that the dream of PM Modi has finally been fulfilled today.

Modi government's big decision, India's refusal to join RCEP, gave this reason