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    • Tags : 26 11 mumbai attacks, Taj Mahal Palace Posted: Thursday , Jun 04, 2009 at 1615 hrs
    Mumbai
    The first police team enters the Taj on November 26 file
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    The operations to storm the hotel began in earnest much after the Marine Commandos arrived at 2:10 am but even they could not go beyond the ground floor. They were followed by the NSG at around 8 am and operations were launched only at 9.30 am.

    While 20 people were killed in the first 30 minutes of the attack, another 12, including NSG Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, died later. The wife and two sons of the hotel’s general manager, Karambir Kang, were also killed in the fires the terrorists set after they left Room 632 at 2.34 am.

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    plz let the police to do the thing for which it has been created centuries agoBy: Vinay Singh(Retd CRPF Comdt.) | 21-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Indian express deserves appreciation for doing this research work but only a few people in india realize that we are overburdening the police day by day. creation of ATS and commondo force within the state police has become a fashion. some vested interest are also there because this provide with lots of unaccounted secret fun that remains unaudited, BUT IN LAST ONE CENTURY WE HAVE NOT MADE OUR POLICE CAPABLE OF DOING THE BASIC POLICING ACTS LIKE CONTROLLING GRASSROOT LEVEL CRIMES SUCH AS RAPE,DECOITY,TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS ETC. even then our policy makers want the police to fight the terrorist also,added responsibilty for which police neither created nor prepared. symultaniously we are making bad use of our PARAMILITARY FORCES like CRPF by forcing them to do normal policing duties intead of fighting exclusivey the menace of terrorism/naxalism. we must go back to the table and instead of overburdening the police empower the CRPF to handle the anti terror mechanism with responsibilty fixed.
    THE CLEAN CHITBy: Niranjan | 08-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward AND OF COURSE A CLEAN CHIT WAS GIVEN TO THE GOVT. I AM CERTAIN THAT THE CLEAN CHIT WAS GIVEN WITHOUT ASKING ANY QUESTIONS AND CONSIDERING ANY ANSWERS THAT WERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE INVETIGATIVE PANEL! SHAME MAHARASHTRA, SHAME GOVT. OF INDIA. FOR ALLOWING SUCH THINGS TO GO ON.
    police roadmaptrashed on 26/11By: G. R. RAO | 06-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Kudos to your investigative reporting. It is highlyshameful that the chief secretary of the state waited for official communication from the police and wasted almost 1 hour before contacting thecentre. He cme to know about the strike at 9.30 p.m. through TV channel and he took up with the centre only at 10.20p.m. and then only he contacted New Delhi. Such actions or lapses are being patronised by granting extension of their services.
    Failure of Mumbai Police on the day of attack 26/11By: shanthanu | 05-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward When the question you have raised in your paper was raised by the opposition leader our Home Minister has the audacity of pointing earlier occasions of attack rather than looking into the failures of his own security men and assuring prevention of recurrence in the present case. If this callous attitude on the part of our Home Minister is not arrested I am sure there would not be any meaningful discussion in parliament. He should be asked to bemore careful in answering the opposition. PM should mend him to country"s needs.
    KudosBy: Ajay | 05-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Great piece of journalism, kudos to Indianexpress
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