Click to play videoMumbai: The wife of a senior police officer, who was killed during the Mumbai terrorist attacks, has alleged the Maharashtra’s government is hiding the findings of a committee which probed the attacks.
Vinita Kamte, wife of slain IPS officer Ashok Kamte, told CNN-IBN the state government must share the contents of the Ram Pradhan Committee’s report.
"Where is the transparency? How do we know who has been blamed; what roles were played by different agencies on that day?” Vinita told CNN-IBN.
“It looks like a whitewash because only the state government knows the contents of the report and what happened that day. So it's only right for them to come out with whatever they know. If there's any sensitive information, it can be blurred."
Vinita said she believed that responsibility for security lapses during the terrorist attacks had not been fixed.
"One person alone cannot be held responsible--so many other persons and agencies were involved in the operations that day. The (police) control room was not properly managed. Certain officers were sitting in offices instead of being in the field,” she alleged.
“Responsibility should be fixed on such persons/agencies so that they don't get away with what they did. Nothing was in place. Not only the police but the entire system collapsed.
“When the state had intelligence inputs of an attack, what steps were taken by them? Did they form any teams after receiving these inputs? Even the disaster management system was not in place,” alleged Vinita.
The Ram Pradhan committee has flayed the Mumbai Police for flouting standard operating procedures and other systemic norms during the attacks.
The state government has decided not to make public the 100-page report of the committee and on Tuesday tabled its action taken report before the Maharashtra Assembly.
Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday told CNN-IBN his government was not hiding the committee’s findings.
"We have nothing to hide. In fact the committee was appointed by me only to go into the several questions that people in Maharashtra and India would like to know. The major issues, which were in the report, have all been given out on the floor of the House," he said.
Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Police, Hemant Karkare, chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, and Inspector Vijay Salaskar were killed by terrorists on the night of November 26.
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