<p>“There are serious lapses and discrepancies on the part of senior police officials, which has been conveniently covered by the committee report. All the officers who had not performed their duties have been given a clean chit and will continue occupying their office,” Vinita said.<br />She said that she wanted to depose before the panel to point out these discrepancies but was not allowed to do so as the committee members said they did not have power to interview victims’ kin.<br />“There are several questions that remain unanswered. How can we allow police to get away with this? If there is another attack like this, I can assure no policeman will come forward to save this city. If the policemen were not able to save their colleagues, how will they save citizens,” she asked.<br />Vinita, however, said she will not approach Maharashtra Chief Minister or any other politician and will take an appropriate legal recourse to address the issue.<br />The high-level committee appointed by state government, which submitted its report on Wednesday, had said “no police can deal with (such) a war-like situation”.<br />Vinita has alleged that certain portions of the call records of the police control room on 26/11 were deleted. <br />Additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte, ATS chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and three other police constables were killed after their jeep was attacked by two militants.</p>
<p>“There are serious lapses and discrepancies on the part of senior police officials, which has been conveniently covered by the committee report. All the officers who had not performed their duties have been given a clean chit and will continue occupying their office,” Vinita said.<br />She said that she wanted to depose before the panel to point out these discrepancies but was not allowed to do so as the committee members said they did not have power to interview victims’ kin.<br />“There are several questions that remain unanswered. How can we allow police to get away with this? If there is another attack like this, I can assure no policeman will come forward to save this city. If the policemen were not able to save their colleagues, how will they save citizens,” she asked.<br />Vinita, however, said she will not approach Maharashtra Chief Minister or any other politician and will take an appropriate legal recourse to address the issue.<br />The high-level committee appointed by state government, which submitted its report on Wednesday, had said “no police can deal with (such) a war-like situation”.<br />Vinita has alleged that certain portions of the call records of the police control room on 26/11 were deleted. <br />Additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte, ATS chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and three other police constables were killed after their jeep was attacked by two militants.</p>
