One year ago, when 40 Central Reserve Police Force were killed as a car filled with explosives rammed into their convoy in Pulwama in Kashm...
One year ago, when 40 Central Reserve Police Force were killed as a car filled with explosives rammed into their convoy in Pulwama in Kashmir, I wrote about the glaring shortcomings in our security apparatus that had allowed such a deadly incident to occur. I had hoped that measures would be taken to rectify the flaws and the people responsible for allowing the massacre of the jawans through sheer negligence and abdication of responsibility would have been identified and dealt with.
Nothing like that appears to have happened. The security establishment appears to have decided to bumble on. No one has been publicly punished for ignoring the calls of the Sector Commander CRPF to airlift the large number of jawans who were assembled at a transit camp in Jammu due to a road block.
The officer who was Director General CRPF at the time has been rewarded with a post-retirement appointment of advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Similarly, no action appears to have been taken against the bureaucrats in home affairs ministry who failed to realise the enormity of situation and allot resources to the CRPF to airlift the stranded troops.
Massive intelligence failure
The most glaring lapse was the massive Intelligence failure of several agencies....
