Thursday, 14 January 2016



Hai everyone....here the news about kolkata accident......


              A soldier's blood on Red Road

The accident that killed IAF corporal Abhimanyu Gaud has put to question the security set-up on the Kidderpore Road-Red Road stretch, which hosts the Republic Day parade each year. A preliminary probe by Lalbazar has exposed negligence on the part of police at multiple levels, say sources. Kolkata Police continues to insist that it was not a "mere accident" and that the car smashed through at least three guard rails. TOI spoke to some of the officers on duty at the time, and others who have successfully conducted Republic Day rehearsals earlier. This are the questions police need to answer:
1. The car sped down Kidderpore Road at 110kmph. Did the Vidyasagar Setu traffic guard notice it? Why didn't they try to stop it or alert senior policemen on duty?
2. How could the car enter the parade area after Kidderpore Road was closed at 5.30 am?
3. Police say there was an assistant police commissioner along with Insas-wielding cops when the Audi broke two guard rails before hitting the corporal and a third barrier when it tried to escape towards Kidderpore. What were the armed cops doing?
4. Lalbazar HQ says police informed their superiors and put up a blockade on the opposite flank after being told that the car had taken a U-turn. Yet, they couldn't stop it and it broke through a third barrier

5. Policemen at the Kidderpore end were clueless about the accident. No one had warned them that the car was headed their way. None of the cops bothered when the driver parked a brand new luxury car on the roadside, tore off the temporary number plates and disappeared after locking the car. Where were the emergency responders — High-Radio Frequency Squads and Radio Frequency Squads that you see at city crossings — doing?


6. Very early in the day, police knew who the car belonged to, had an address and phone number. The company is located bang opposite Jorasanko police station. But police say that by the time they went to the address, all the members of the Sohrab family were gone.


7. Police say such an accident is unprecedented. Would a terror attack come with warning? Wouldn't it be 'unprecedented' as well? How will police respond to such a crisis?


8. Police say that after some bitter experiences, they have mastered the placing guard rails to make them unbreachable. They were proved wrong thrice. "We are looking into how the guard rails were breached," said police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha. The home department — with CM Mamata Banerjee at its helm — has asked for a report. The intelligence wing will file a separate report after receiving a report from DC-south and DC-First Battalion, the commanding officer of the parade. Police promised a security beef-up in the area, but there will be no change in traffic plan. "We will follow the present restrictions to the core," said DC-traffic Solomon V Neshakumar.

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