Report on Dantewada massacre submitted to PC

The one-man inquiry committee, appointed to probe the recent Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh which killed 76 security personnel, on Monday submitted its report to Home Minister P Chidambaram.

Former chief of Border Security Force E N Rammohan submitted the report to Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai, who handed over it to the home minister.

Though the content of the report is not known immediately, official sources said the 69-year-old 1965 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IPS officer is believed to have indicated leadership failure during and after the worst-ever Maoist attack.

On April 6, nearly a thousand Maoists staged an ambush on a group of CRPF personnel, killing 75 of them, along with a state police head constable.

Rammohan has also suggested certain measures to mitigate lapses so that such incidents do not occur in the future, the sources said.

The home minister will take necessary action after taking stock of the report. He is likely to submit the report to the Parliament with an Action Taken Report.

During the fortnight-long inquiry, Rammohan collected relevant information on the command structure, hierarchy and the decision concerning the operation, quality of training imparted to the Central Reserve Police Force men and whether they followed standard operating procedures, the sources said.

He is believed to have analysed call detail records of the mobile telephones used by the deceased and injured personnel of CRPF during the encounter.

During his visit to Tarmetla in Dantewada district and state headquarters Raipur, Rammohan interacted with CRPF officials, local policemen, civil officials and injured jawans.