Excerpt: Bombay After Ayodhya by Jitendra Dixit
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Excerpt: Bombay After Ayodhya by Jitendra Dixit

Hindustan Times  

The attacks exposed many chinks in Mumbai’s security system and counterterrorism mechanism. 345pp, ₹599; HarperCollins One year after the attacks, the then Mumbai police commissioner, D Sivanandhan, invited me for a ride on one of the newly bought speedboats at the Gateway of India. The CAG report also exposed a 63.97 per cent deficiency in the number of personnel assigned for coastal security in Mumbai. Bulletproof Jackets Need ‘Proof’ ATS chief Hemant Karkare at a press conference at the police club on 6 October 2008. Author Jitendra Dixit Nowadays, one can find door-frame metal detectors at major local railway stations and baggage-screening machines at outstation train stations — both measures seem nothing more than a mockery in the name of security.

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