ABSTRACT
India in the new millennium is confronted with a plethora of problems, the most menacing among which, is the challenge of terrorist militancy. Terrorism with its portentous national and international ramifications, has posed a formidable problem for policy makers. Military Psychiatry has not been extensively experimented with in India despite its potential for reducing the propensity of militancy. From the Gandhian angle, efforts should be made to win over the militants, that is the soft ones by the power of love. The same policy of Gandhian forbearance should be observed in the case of arrested terrorists. It is easy to torture a terrorist to extract information about the hideouts of terrorists as well as their future plans but if he is released later by court verdict, the memories of torture shall never be obliterated from their minds and, ‘All the opportunity which there was to remove his indoctrination, would be lost.’.
