A high-level committee appointed by the Maharashtra government to go into the Mumbai terror strikes has found serious lapses on the part of the then Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor in handling the "war-like" multi-pronged attack.
However, the two-member committee did not find any serious lapses to act or react on the part of individual officers and police men of the Mumbai Police.
"There was absence of overt leadership on the part of Hasan Gafoor, the CP, and lack of visible Command and Control at the CP's office," said the report prepared by former Governor and Union Home Secretary R D Pradhan.
The report tabled by Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil in the Assembly today said the Committee found several lacunae in working, both within Mantralaya, the state secretariat, and the police establishment.
"Well set out procedures for handling intelligence and 'Crisis Management' were overlooked. These require urgent attention," Pradhan said in his note to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan presenting the report of the committee which also had as member V Balachandran, former Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat. PTI
