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.

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