Gafoor shifted, Sivanandan new Mumbai police chief

Mumbai, Jun 13 (PTI) Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan
Gafoor, who is believed to have been indicted by a high-level
committee for the way he handled the 26/11 terror attacks in
India's financial capital, was Saturday shifted from the key
post.

D Sivanandan, the state intelligence chief, was
appointed as the new Police Commissioner.

A 1974 batch IPS officer, Gafoor, who held the
high-profile office for over 15 months, has been made Managing
Director of the Police Housing Corporation.

The Pradhan Committee, which went into the terror
attacks that left over 180 dead, is understood to have faulted
Gafoor for not taking charge of the situation, blamed him for
lack of coordination among senior policemen and also noted
that he should not have stayed at one spot and should have
visited different terror sites to assess what was required.

The sudden transfer of Gafoor to a less important wing
of police department is seen in political circles as a
tactical move to escape embarrassment in the face of reports
of indictment by the Committee, whose findings are to be
tabled in a couple of days.

The top police officer brushed aside linking his
transfer to the terror strikes, saying "I was due for
promotion...this has nothing to do with November 26 terror
attack." PTI VT
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