New Delhi, April 08: There were “internal deficiencies” in the way the CRPF carried out the Dantewada operation, Army chief General V K Singh said today, adding the battalion involved was not trained by the army.
“This is a matter of concern… in what has happened, there were some internal deficiencies, which may be in their training or some other things and they (paramilitary forces) are thinking over it,” he told reporters when asked if the Dantewada incident, that claimed lives of 76 personnel, was a matter of concern.
Noting that over 40,000 police and CRPF personnel have been trained by the army in counter-insurgency operations, Gen Singh said there were “problem areas” in training the CRPF personnel but added the 62nd battalion, whose men were massacred by the Maoists on Tuesday were not trained by his force.
“At times, we don’t get homogeneous entities for training.
–Agencies