Pune: The four blasts that hit a kilometre-long stretch in Pune may have been of low intensity but have managed to shake up the administration and citizenry. However, even as investigators from various security agencies have started probing what has been confirmed as a planned and coordinated act, photographs indicate that local cops may have obliviously made the inquest a tad more difficult. Policemen are seen lifting bicycles (in pic) " suspected to have carried the explosives " with their bare hands, while taking them to the forensic lab from the police station.
Colonel (retired) Mahendra Pratap Choudhary, who has trained Mumbai police commandoes in combating terror, told MiD DAY, I have seen the television footage from last evening wherein a policeman wearing bullet-proof jacket was spotted searching for clues from one of the spots. This was an absolutely incorrect way of handling the crime scene at the initial stages following a blast. The policeman did not wear a bomb suit, nor did he have any other safety gear like explosives vapour detector or explosives trace detector. It was very evident from the cops actions that he was not trained and that he did not have a clue on how to go about collecting evidences from the spot.
It is crucial for investigators and forensic scientists that the crime scene remains unaltered so they may gather the smallest of clues about the nature and type of explosives used, explained Choudhary.
Speaking to MiD DAY, former union home
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