Click to play videoMumbai: After Vinita Kamte, it is Kavita Karkare, the wife of slain ATS Chief Hemant Karkare who has now come forward and slammed the Pradhan Committee report on the 26/11 attacks.
Kavita Karkare said that the Commission’s findings will not help fight terror. The report gives a clean chit to the Mumbai Police.
"This will give a very wrong message to the society," said Karkare's wife.
"There was no co-ordination between Intelligence, Coastal Guard, Police department and the state government. But the committee is not admitting this and I know they will never admit or find out any lapses in what has happened on 26/11. Otherwise I would have never lost my husband," Kavita Karkare added.
These may be strong words from the wife of the senior-most officer who lost his life fighting terrorists in the 26/11 Mumbai attack.
The R Pradhan committee, which submitted its report on Wednesday, had completely exonerated the state government and police machinery of lapses.
Family members of cops who died in the attack are outraged.
The brother of Hemant Karkare said, “God forbid, if there is another such attack will there be Karkares, Salaskars and Kamtes other brave people who were there on the spot immediately and who made supreme sacrifices in the line of duty."
The Pradhan committee had probed the action taken on intelligence inputs and conduct of police officials during the attack. But it also squarely put the blame on the Centre.
The 100-page report, handed over by former Union secretary Ram Pradhan, has exonerated the Maharashtra Government saying it did not have “direct” intelligence about the attacks and that “no police agency in the country could have dealt with the war-like situation”.
"As far as the Intelligence angle is concerned, the Centre did not give any direct inputs to Maharashtra, therefore the state government did not fail on any point," said Ram Pradhan who headed the committee.
It is notable that during the investigation, the committee interviewed over 50 cops. It examined 5000 police control room logs and also visited the attack sites.
But its 100 page report does not fix responsibility on any official
It also evades a number of key issues saying they are sub-judice.
The report, in fact, goes on to praise the work of Mumbai Police officers.
The state government says it will act on the report recommendations after tabling it in the assembly.
(With inputs from Toral Varia, Shoaib Ahmed and Deborah Gray
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