A day after home secretary Ardhendu Sen pointed out West Bengal Police failure to react in time despite specific intelligence inputs about the Maoist strike on the Silda EFR camp, CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday conceded the force’s lack of alertness. The state government has decided to conduct an inquiry into the incident, he added.
The chief minister’s announcement is very significant, say top officials, especially because the main premise of the probe would be whether there was an alert, how specific it was, who failed to react and why. The probe committee will be constituted by Monday.
Not only that, it clearly points to the lackadaisical attitude despite intelligence inputs. Also significant is that only two days ago, Union home minister P Chidambaram had hinted at the failure of state police in the Silda camp attack case.
‘‘There was lack of alertness (of the force)... I feel very bad, they were like sitting ducks. It is very difficult to accept... The probe panel will find out the modus operandi, what our forces had been doing then, whether police had earlier inputs on the attack,’’ the CM said. ‘‘We want to know the whole truth so that we can learn from our mistakes.’’
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lack-of-alertness-caused-attack-admits-Buddhadeb/articleshow/5590440.cms
The chief minister’s announcement is very significant, say top officials, especially because the main premise of the probe would be whether there was an alert, how specific it was, who failed to react and why. The probe committee will be constituted by Monday.
Not only that, it clearly points to the lackadaisical attitude despite intelligence inputs. Also significant is that only two days ago, Union home minister P Chidambaram had hinted at the failure of state police in the Silda camp attack case.
‘‘There was lack of alertness (of the force)... I feel very bad, they were like sitting ducks. It is very difficult to accept... The probe panel will find out the modus operandi, what our forces had been doing then, whether police had earlier inputs on the attack,’’ the CM said. ‘‘We want to know the whole truth so that we can learn from our mistakes.’’
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lack-of-alertness-caused-attack-admits-Buddhadeb/articleshow/5590440.cms
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