Click to play videoMumbai: After their killing spree at CST, terrorists Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail faced resistance from nine police officials, forcing them to use a pedestrian bridge to move into the bylane adjoining the Times of India building in Mumbai.
It was then that the Mumbai Police control room appears to have lost track of the terrorists' movements.
The Ram Pradhan Committee report states the Control Room "could not closely track the movements of terrorists or police teams in their pursuit because simultaneous events were happening in that area and senior officers present on the spot were not keeping the CR informed of their tactical plans".
This is what appears to have triggered a sequence of events which ensured top cops Anti-Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte and Senior Inspector Vijay Salaskar landed up at the same spot and got into a Qualis to confront them.
The report also suggests Joint Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria, stated in his deposition that over 60 SRP men and other assault personnel were present in the area, yet the location witnessed large scale massacre of police officers and civilians.
The report says: "That there were as many as 60 SRP men, Crime Branch Special Team (SOS), QRT, Assault Squad etc were available at Cama venue (rear side) besides the local police. Thus there was a large number of force deployed in and around the area. Despite that, this area witnessed large-scale massacre of police officers and men."
But the report categorically states that the death of the three senior most Mumbai Police officers -- Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar -- happened purely because they landed up together at the rear of Cama Hospital on the night of 26/11, thus negating all conspiracy theories.
It also claims that the three officers' entered Cama Hospital's front gate in a Qualis on the spot, and that it was not pre-planned.
"The decision to go by the Qualis to intercept the terrorists from the front side of Cama Hospital entrance was sudden", states the report.
The report goes on to quote Additional Commissioner Sadanand Date's injured bodyguard. "Perhaps it was not necessary for the three officers to travel along the lane next to Cama Hospital to rescue Date," Date's bodyguard said.
Salaskar's bodyguard, Arun Jadhav, also told the Committee that the three officers had the option of storming into the hospital from the rear side.
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