•Shekhar Gupta: Did you try to capture anybody alive?

J K Dutt: You see, as I said, one of my objective was to see if we could capture the terroriss alive as far as possible because I all such cases of terrorism, it is very necessary to interrogate the person to find out the links, the set ups, who the operators are, who the leaders are, who their other supporters may be, what their other plans may be? All, a lot of wealth of information can be obtained from them and that is why we were trying to get this. This also if you have two persons, you get a lot of corroborations as well.

•Shekhar Gupta: Yes, because there was Kasab and some body else.

J K Dutt: Yeah, now the thing was that at one or two places, on two or three occasions; this was at the Taj also and also at the Oberoi, you know we did sort of say that you have no chance of getting out of this place alive, you better surrender yourself; at least you life will be saved. But, they would only reply with a string of abuses and they would start shooting from their weapons.

•Shekhar Gupta: String of abuses in Punjabi?

J K Dutt: Well, honestly I didn’t ask my men if it was in English or Punjabi, but I suppose coming from that side probably Punjabi.

•Shekhar Gupta: I am talking in terms of the ethnics…

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