Mumbai, June 12: The kin of security personnel killed in Mumbai terror strikes on Friday suspected that gunmen who carried out the attacks could have had local support.
K Unnikrishnan, father of slain NSG commando Sandeep
Unnikrishnan, and Kavita Karkare, wife of slain ATS chief
Hemant Karkare, said there might have "sleeper groups" of
terrorist oufits in the city.
"I can`t believe that only ten people came and did so
much damage in a city like Mumbai. There must have been
support for them and there are sleeper groups which might have
helped them," Unnikrishnan said at a function organised by
Sahara India.
Kavita Karkare also criticised the security establishment
for its shortcomings and said it was likely that there was an
element of local support.
"There are many people supporting them (terrorists) and
we should bring about a change," she said.
Karkare blamed the political establishment, state
government, Intelligence machinery and Coast Guard for
"lapses" which led to the attacks in which over 180 people
were killed.
Sahara India pledged financial support to the next of kin
of the 18 police and security forces personnel who were killed
while taking on the terrorists in the city on November 26.
The wife of encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar, Smita,
rued that society had already "forgotten" the lessons from the
terror strikes.
Bureau Report
