Pune police cancels bomb suits order citing permission hurdles

Despite assurances to provide police with modern equipments and machinery post 26/11 terror attack

PTI | March 19, 2010



Despite assurances to provide police with modern equipments and machinery post 26/11 terror attack, Pune police had to cancel the order of two bomb suits citing lack of funds and permission from the Maharashtra government.

After floating tenders in February last year for the same, Mumbai-based company Technotrade Impex was given the contract to supply the suits, which were worth over Rs 13 lakh for the Bomb Disposal and Detection Squad (BDDS).

However, in October last the special branch of the Pune police in a letter to the company cancelled the order of the suits due to lack of funds and requisite permission from the state government.

The company has now approached the Bombay High Court seeking for it to direct the Pune police to accept delivery of the two suits.

"After inviting tenders and issuing custom duty certificates to the company for import of the suits, how can the police now cancel the order," the company's advocate Ashok Sarogi told PTI.

"Such security equipments are the need of the hour now considering terror attacks. Just recently a bomb ripped apart the German Bakery in Pune. What if the BDDS team were required to defuse a bomb? How could they have done it without proper protection," Sarogi questioned.

The High Court is expected to hear the petition next week.

Comments

 

Other News

Maharashtra adopts hybrid model for Census 2026 data collection

The government has initiated preparations for Census 2026 in Maharashtra, introducing a hybrid approach that combines optional self-enumeration with comprehensive door-to-door data collection to ensure complete coverage across the state.   According to senior officials, the Self-

What the nine Indian Nobel winners have in common

A Touch Of Genius: The Wisdom of India’s Nobel Laureates Edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee Aleph Books, Rs 1499, 848 pages  

Income Tax dept holds Ghatkopar Outreach on new IT Act

The Income Tax Department organised an outreach programme in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, to raise awareness about the key features of the Income Tax Act, 2025, effective April 1, 2026. The initiative is part of a nationwide effort to promote taxpayer awareness, simplify compliance, and strengthen a transparent, eff

Making AI work where governance is closest to people

India’s next governance leap may not solely come from digitisation. It will come from making public systems more intelligent, more adaptive, and more responsive to the dynamics at the grassroots. That opportunity is especially significant at the panchayat level, where governance is not an abstract po

Borrowing troubles: How small loans are quietly trapping youth

A silent crisis is playing out in the pocket of young India, not in stock markets or government treasuries, but in smartphones of college students and first-jobbers who clicked on the Apply Now button without reading the small print.  A decade ago, to take a loan, you had to do some paperwor

A 19th-century pilgrim’s progress

The Travels of a Sadhu in the Himalayas By Jaladhar Sen (Translated by Somdatta Mandal) Speaking Tiger Books, 259 pages, ₹499.00  


Archives

Current Issue

Opinion

Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Subscribe Newsletter

Twitter