‘Taj, Oberoi ignored security advice’

The Taj and Oberoi hotel managements had “tragically” failed to implement important security advice given by Mumbai police prior to November 26 terror attacks owing to “own policy perspective as hospitality industry”, notes the Pradhan committee report.

The Mumbai Police had carried out discussions with both the hotel managements as the IB in September last had sent an alert saying the Lashkar-e-Taiba was “showing interest” on certain targets like Taj hotel in Mumbai.

“The Committee is constrained to observe that tragically, the Taj and the Oberoi managements did not implement certain important security advice because of their own policy perspective as hospitality industry,” the report states.