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Written by Agencies | New Delhi | Published:November 20, 2009 7:12 pm
Some of the top Mumbai police officers have been accused by their former boss
of dithering from “responding to the situation” during the 26/11 attacks. Gafoor
Hasan,the then Mumbai Police Commissioner,said,”a section of senior police
officers refused to be on the ground and take on the terrorists. By doing so,they
chose to ignore the need of the hour.”
Naming some of the seniors,Hasan,in an interview published in ‘The Week’
magazine just days ahead of the first anniversary of the attacks,said,”I told you
there were a handful. For example,K L Prasad refused to come to the Trident and
decided against hitting the roads. Devena Bharti,K Venkatesham and Parambhir
Singh did not appear keen on responding to the situation as it kept dawning on
us.”
Prasad was then the Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) while Bharti
was the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime). Venkatesham was the
Additional Commissioner of Police (South Region) and Singh was the Additional
Commissioner of Police (Anti-Terrorism Squad).
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Senior cops did not respond to26/11 situation: Hasan GafoorSome of the top Mumbai police officers have been accused by their formerboss of dithering from 'responding to the situation'.
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“Yes,there was dearth of eagerness on the part of a handful of senior officers to
be on the ground during those days,” said Gafoor,replying to a question if he
noticed a bit of unwillingness among the senior officers.
Now Director General of Police (Housing),Gafoor received a lot of flak from the
Ram Pradhan Committee,which probed into how the security agencies
responded to the deadly terror strikes that claimed more than 180 lives.
It had observed that command and control was not properly exercised during
the handling of the attacks.
Asked how he felt when let down by his own men and if there was a bigger
embarrassment,Gafoor said “yes there was,indeed. On November 28,I attended a
meeting with the DGP and Home Minister. I was told to withdraw the NSG and
instead use the Mumbai police for the ongoing operations. The DGP told me that
the entire world was watching us and so we should put an immediate end to the
siege and help defuse the crisis. This sounded ridiculous,as the NSG is an elite
force that can tackle such crisis situation. I said it was even preposterous to even
think of taking off the NSG.”
Recalling the events that took place on November 26 last year,Gafoor said “the
first thing on my mind was,of course,to liquidate the terrorists or to restrict and
compel them to a corner and then cordon off the targeted area — all this to
engineer the safe evacuation of the people trapped inside.”
Lauding the NSG for doing a “great job” in eliminating the terrorists,the former
Mumbai Police Commissioner said “without them it would not have been
possible to even map the terrorists’ movement inside those built-up areas,let
alone take them head on and overpower them ultimately.”
Asked if believes that he was made a scapegoat,he said,”I cannot comment on
that. But yes,political considerations do play a part in lot of things that are
decided and ratified. It is politics and much more beyond.”
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