Former bureaucrat Ram Pradhan today declined to comment on the veracity of a report, which a TV news channel said was the one submitted by him to Maharashtra government on the 26/11 attacks.
"I have no comments to offer. I am also watching the TV channel," Pradhan said.
The channel claimed it has accessed the report which said "Mumbai Police was severely handicapped during terrorist attacks on the city on November 26 last year because it lacked weapons, bullet-proof jackets and communication equipment."
"The supervision and coordination of the police force and the infrastructural support was poor and inadequate," the channel quoted the Ram Pradhan committee report as saying.
The channel said the 200-page report "confirms that the police were given inadequate bullet-proof jackets, like the one worn by Hemant Karkare, chief of Maharashtra’s Anti- Terrorist Squad, who was killed by terrorists on November 26."
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