IN THE MEMORY OF.................

S.A.R.G

LAUNCHED
IN MEMORY OF
MUMBAI INCIDENT

NATIONAL SECURITY GUARD
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
Havildar Gajendra Singh

MUMBAI POLICE
Joint Commissioner (ATS) Hemant Karkare
Additional Commissioner Ashoke Kamte
Inspector Vijay Salaskar
Sub-Inspector Bapusaheb Durgude
Sub-Inspector Prakash More
Assistant Sub-Inspector Tukaram Gopal Omble
Constable Ambadas Pawar
Constable Arun Chitte
Constable Jaywant Patil
Constable Vijay Khandekar
Constable Yogesh Patil

OTHER SECURITY PERSONNEL
Inspector Shashank Shinde (Railway Police)
Head Constable M.C.Chodhary (Railway Protection Force)
Home Guard Constable Mukesh Jadhav Constable Rahul Shinde (State Reserve Police Force)

Official launch of S.A.R.G. at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai

The event aimed at unveiling the research findings done by 4 students of Thadomal Shahani Engineering College on the domain 'lets Beat Terrorism, Preparing Mumbai for the Unthinkable' and launching India’s First Students’ Anti-Terrorism Research Group. The guests for the event were Brigadier Sudhir Sawant, Additional C.P. (Protection and security) Vinay Kargaonkar and Group Captain K.H.Suresh, Indian Air Force.

Once the research findings were unveiled, the guest were asked to comment on the research findings.

K.S.Suresh, Group Captain, Indian Air force, highly appreciated the research work. He even suggested us to explore and do a research over Dam Security.

Additional Commissioner of Police(Protection and Security Deptt.) Vinay Kargaokar said ‘This is the first time that students have shown intrest in studying terrorism and have been able to give practical solutions for each and every aspect of security. We will consider the points which are implementable. I expected some technical details along with something for the common citizen in the research findings, and I am happy to say that both the areas were covered very well'.

Brigadier Sudhir Sawant appreciated the initiative taken by students of management society, TSEC. He said ‘This proves my point that you do not need to depend on experts to find solutions, when young people of India can certainly be trusted to provide effective solutions, as provided in the presentation’.

We the students cum citizens of the country promise to build a better nation.Jai Hind, said the students of anti-terrorism research group while concluding the event.

Book Launch event- '26/11 Mumbai Attacked' by Harinder Baweja, covered by S.A.R.G. Members

'26/11 Mumbai Attacked' is a must read book that has been carefully put together by a very able team of editors at Roli Books. This book is a combined effort of 8 Indians. People like Ashish Khetan, Bachi Karkaria, Chris Khetan, George Koshy, Harsh Baweja, Julio Francis Riberio, Rahul Shivshankar and Harinder Baweja, have put in efforts and have explored terror step by step. The main punch of this book is the interview with LeT’s representative, by the only Indian Journalist Harinder Baweja inside the headquarters of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, in Muridke, Pakistan- where Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist, was trained for the attack.

The book was launched at Brihan Mumbai Police Club, VT. The chief guest for the evening was Mrs. Kavita Karkare, wife of Joint Commissioner (ATS) Hemant Karkare. When asked to share her thoughts on stage, she just spoke these lines,

“Kaise kahein who tha desh par mita
Kaise kahein who tha desh ka beta
Rajnitti ki goli se chalni kiya uska seena,
Kaise kahein who tha desh par mita
Kaise kahein who tha desh ka beta

Pelhi goli prashashan ne mari
Doosri goli kasab ki nikli
Teesri goli janta ne mari

Toh Kaise kahein who tha desh par mita
Toh Kaise kahein who tha desh ka beta”

When asked to Mr. Pramod Kapoor, director of Roli Books about his favourite chapter from the book, he choosed to mention the chapter written by Chris Khetan, who pays rich tribute through accounts of meetings with the wives of slain policemen in Mumbai, who lost their lives in the fight against a deadly enemy, sacrificing their future for ours.

Next, Julio Francis Riberio, the former police commissioner of Mumbai and director general of police, Punjab, who is also a co-author for the book, was invited on stage. He highlited the need of self discipline among citizens. In the book, he has written the need of police reforms that make the police force accountable to the law alone rather than the political party in power. According to Mr. Riberio, the role of politicians should be confined to laying down the policy and not to administering or enforcing.


When Harinder Baweja was asked to share her thoughts, she specified that the book takes a full 360-degree look at 26/11. It was perhaps, for the first time, that permission was granted to any Indian Journalist to visit the sprawling campus that liies 40 Km out of Lahore and belived worldwide to be the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), said Harinder.

Harinder Baweja is editor with Tehelka newsmagazine. She was ealier associate editor of India Today in Delhi. A current affairs reporter, she has written extensively on Punjab, Kashmir, Pakistan and Afganistan. She was also in Iraq in mid-2003, reporting on US invasion. Baweja has been writing on terrorism and defence for the last two decades.

Talking about the book, details of intelligence failures are properly mentioned. Several chapters in the book take a long hard look at how the terror unfolded, systematically for over sixty long hours as India was held hostage. The chapters contain hitherto unpublished information on how the operation was planned and executed. Well-known journalists Ashish Khetan and Rahul Shivshankar have painstakingly reconstructed the horror at the three main target sites: hotels Taj and Oberoi and Nariman House and all three chapters give crucial insights into the terrorists’ conversations with their handlers in Pakistan. The book also takes us to read the gripping first hand accounts from hostages who survived near-death.

All in all, the book ‘26/11 Mumbai Attacked’ is a must read book for someone who wishes to prevent another 26/11 and build a strong, secure and happy India.