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Twin bomb explosions rocked the Boston marathon on April 15, killing at least three people and injuring dozens. Two days later, terror struck Bangalore where 16 people were injured in a bomb blast near the BJP office. But the two cases paint a contrasting pic ture of emergency response and post-blast investigations.
US security agencies cracked the case within four days by identif ying two Chechen brothers as the bombers - one of them was gunned down on Saturday, while the other was arrested after being injured. The probe into the Bangalore blast , on the other hand, has not yielded any results and the Indian agencies are still groping for clues.
The handling of the Bangalore case is a grim reminder of the poor standards and lack of professional approach of investigators probing terror cases in the country. While in Boston, the police we nt about their job meticulously, analysing and sifting through piles of digital images caught on CC T V cameras and even videos sent by the public, the CC T V footage in Bangalore has not given any major leads. Post-Boston bombings, inve stigators pieced together whatever forensic leads they could from the blast site; back home the police were lit tle concerned about the fac t that , in haste, the fire brigade washed away all evidence from the site.
Experts feel handling of the blast site in India remains amateurish and shoddy. "Let ting the fire brigade wash out the evidence was a blunder. Our police are not professional enough, and lacks training to handle such cases," said Prakash Singh, former direc tor general of the Border Security Force.
Politicians don't help the cause either. Ever y big leader is allowed to visit a blast site, who is, generally, escorted by police officials. "There was no political controversy in the US after the attack, but here our politicians get involved which hampers inve stigations," said Ved Mar wah, former direc tor general of the National Security Guard.
He added: "The blast site has to be completely sanitised and access should be restric ted to investigators."
The handling of Bangalore case reminds of poor standards and lack of professional approach. Reuters
Twin bomb explosions rocked the Boston marathon on April 15, killing at least three people and injuring dozens. Two days later, terror struck Bangalore where 16 people were injured in a bomb blast near the BJP office. But the two cases paint a contrasting pic ture of emergency response and post-blast investigations.
US security agencies cracked the case within four days by identif ying two Chechen brothers as the bombers - one of them was gunned down on Saturday, while the other was arrested after being injured. The probe into the Bangalore blast , on the other hand, has not yielded any results and the Indian agencies are still groping for clues.
The handling of the Bangalore case is a grim reminder of the poor standards and lack of professional approach of investigators probing terror cases in the country. While in Boston, the police we nt about their job meticulously, analysing and sifting through piles of digital images caught on CC T V cameras and even videos sent by the public, the CC T V footage in Bangalore has not given any major leads. Post-Boston bombings, inve stigators pieced together whatever forensic leads they could from the blast site; back home the police were lit tle concerned about the fac t that , in haste, the fire brigade washed away all evidence from the site.
Experts feel handling of the blast site in India remains amateurish and shoddy. "Let ting the fire brigade wash out the evidence was a blunder. Our police are not professional enough, and lacks training to handle such cases," said Prakash Singh, former direc tor general of the Border Security Force.
Politicians don't help the cause either. Ever y big leader is allowed to visit a blast site, who is, generally, escorted by police officials. "There was no political controversy in the US after the attack, but here our politicians get involved which hampers inve stigations," said Ved Mar wah, former direc tor general of the National Security Guard.
He added: "The blast site has to be completely sanitised and access should be restric ted to investigators."