The Times of India (TOI) Student Edition carries a special feature, ‘Words Worth, d of d day’ and the December 4 word of the day was AK56! Rightly so, now that the politicians aren’t working in the direction of ensuring security for the individuals, the media has taken up the job.
With concern in every citizen’s mind over the issue of personal security, a man carried his (licensed) revolver in and outside the station. No, that attempt wasn’t to counter the possibility of another attack, but it was just another disclosure of the lack of effective checking methods at the station which had been attacked not a week ago. After his successful attempt to carry the gun, the man questioned the security men as to why wasn’t he caught when the metal detector rang an alarm. Surprisingly, they answered they couldn’t hear the alarm!
Exactly a week after the Mumbai aftermath, an eight Kg RDX bomb was found in a bag lying with the bags and luggage of the terror attack victims at Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST). CST was the first place where the terrorists opened indiscriminate firing on the fateful night of the 26 of the last month. People running for their lives, in an attempt to save themselves ran out of the station leaving there luggage/bags behind. The terrorists, who came with the sole purpose to cause maximum devastation, left the bomb amongst the bags before fleeing the station. After the attacks, the police sanitized the station and locked up the left behind bags in a room. Gradually usual crowd resumed and unexpectedly a week after the bomb, in an unclaimed bag, is discovered when the police officials were distributing the bags to the kin of the deceased.
Fortunately the bomb never exploded but this again puts a question mark over the work of the officials who sanitized the area and declared it safe. This has again uncovered the negligent way in which our police force works. Had the bomb exploded the causalities would have been much larger. What more that the bomb lay there for a complete week! Is that how the police sanitized the entire railway station, without checking the bags? Where were the sniffer dogs? Where were the metal detectors? How did the police declare the station safe without a meticulous check-up?
And now after the discovery of the bomb at CST, fresh grilling of the caught jihadi, Azam Amir Kasav, has sent a chill down the spine of the Mumbai police force. He claims that each of the ten terrorists carried a bomb which leaves one bomb un-accounted for…is he again fooling the police as he has been taught in his training by his bosses? Or is it the truth?
In a larger perspective: Are we safe now? Within a week of such unprecedented attacks, twice has been the negligence of Mumbai police uncovered. And this wouldn’t have been any different had it been any other part of India. When the police or the government officials will work towards the safety of the individuals? Every citizen’s blood is boiling, protests are raging in every part of the country, and fear of security has filled up everybody’s mind. Instead of sympathizing with the families of the deceased, the politicians too were busy, busy throwing dirt on the opposition leaders and producing a vote bank for themselves in the process. It was pity to see the politicos blaming the opponent and pleading votes in favor of their party! Can anyone please ask these political gurus to keep their mouth shut for a while? We don’t need their expert opinions on the failure of their opposition; instead what we need is an accountable, responsible government. What we need is security for every individual who runs a risk of being victimized, dying an untimely death.
With concern in every citizen’s mind over the issue of personal security, a man carried his (licensed) revolver in and outside the station. No, that attempt wasn’t to counter the possibility of another attack, but it was just another disclosure of the lack of effective checking methods at the station which had been attacked not a week ago. After his successful attempt to carry the gun, the man questioned the security men as to why wasn’t he caught when the metal detector rang an alarm. Surprisingly, they answered they couldn’t hear the alarm!
Exactly a week after the Mumbai aftermath, an eight Kg RDX bomb was found in a bag lying with the bags and luggage of the terror attack victims at Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST). CST was the first place where the terrorists opened indiscriminate firing on the fateful night of the 26 of the last month. People running for their lives, in an attempt to save themselves ran out of the station leaving there luggage/bags behind. The terrorists, who came with the sole purpose to cause maximum devastation, left the bomb amongst the bags before fleeing the station. After the attacks, the police sanitized the station and locked up the left behind bags in a room. Gradually usual crowd resumed and unexpectedly a week after the bomb, in an unclaimed bag, is discovered when the police officials were distributing the bags to the kin of the deceased.
Fortunately the bomb never exploded but this again puts a question mark over the work of the officials who sanitized the area and declared it safe. This has again uncovered the negligent way in which our police force works. Had the bomb exploded the causalities would have been much larger. What more that the bomb lay there for a complete week! Is that how the police sanitized the entire railway station, without checking the bags? Where were the sniffer dogs? Where were the metal detectors? How did the police declare the station safe without a meticulous check-up?
And now after the discovery of the bomb at CST, fresh grilling of the caught jihadi, Azam Amir Kasav, has sent a chill down the spine of the Mumbai police force. He claims that each of the ten terrorists carried a bomb which leaves one bomb un-accounted for…is he again fooling the police as he has been taught in his training by his bosses? Or is it the truth?
In a larger perspective: Are we safe now? Within a week of such unprecedented attacks, twice has been the negligence of Mumbai police uncovered. And this wouldn’t have been any different had it been any other part of India. When the police or the government officials will work towards the safety of the individuals? Every citizen’s blood is boiling, protests are raging in every part of the country, and fear of security has filled up everybody’s mind. Instead of sympathizing with the families of the deceased, the politicians too were busy, busy throwing dirt on the opposition leaders and producing a vote bank for themselves in the process. It was pity to see the politicos blaming the opponent and pleading votes in favor of their party! Can anyone please ask these political gurus to keep their mouth shut for a while? We don’t need their expert opinions on the failure of their opposition; instead what we need is an accountable, responsible government. What we need is security for every individual who runs a risk of being victimized, dying an untimely death.
