The Chhattisgarh Government is unlikely to oblige the home ministry which wanted action to be taken against two of its top officers in connection with last month's Maoist attack in Dantewada that killed 76 security personnel.
The state government has also expressed surprise over the findings of E N Rammohan Committee which probed the April 6 attack, saying the conclusions did not reflect the situation on ground.
The findings by the former director general of Border Security Force (BSF) had formed the basis for the home ministry to ask for action. Referring to a letter of Union Home Secretary G K Pillai to state chief secretary Joy Oommen asking for action against Inspector General of Bastar T J Long Kumeer and Superintendent of Police Dantewada Amresh Mishra, highly placed sources in the government said it was surprising to find that Rammohan was actually not aware as to where the slain CRPF personnel were heading for.
Among the four counts on which the home ministry has sought action against Kumeer and Mishra was that an intelligence input about presence of Naxals in Mukram forests was not shared with the CRPF company.
The officials wondered why this input was needed to be shared with the CRPF personnel when their actual position was Burlapal, a place six km away from the scene.
The officials also said that the CRPF team had been misleading their own control room about their location and had fudged the log entries, which has come to light during subsequent enquiries.
The other charge levelled against the two officials was that they should have jointly monitored the operations and regulated as and when needed. The explanation presented by the state officials was that a joint control room had not been set up because of a decision of the CRPF headquarters in New Delhi which Rammohan committee has not gone into.
The third charge levelled against the officials was that an Indian Air Force chopper was not pressed into service from Jagdalpur when the report of the incident came at 0600 hours on April 6.
The state officials contended that the initial report was that two CRPF personnel were injured and for this no one would have allowed the permission for flying the IAF chopper and that the IG of any range could not order for flying of the helicopter which remained in the operation custody of STF Chhattisgarh.
