{
 "no": 6,
 "id": "case-6",
 "sk": 20190214,
 "year": 2019,
 "date": "14 Feb 2019",
 "cat": "National security",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Pulwama. 40 troopers dead, the questions buried",
 "stamp": "No public inquiry",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>40</b> CRPF personnel killed when a suicide bomber rammed their convoy",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A catastrophic intelligence and security failure on a known-sensitive highway",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "A vehicle packed with explosives struck a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, Kashmir, killing 40 personnel in the deadliest attack on Indian forces in the region in decades.",
 "dodge": "No findings on the security lapse were ever made public. The then Governor of J&amp;K, Satya Pal Malik, later stated openly that there had been grave lapses, including a denied request to airlift the convoy, and said he was told at the highest level to keep quiet because the blame would be placed on Pakistan. Those claims were never independently examined. Forty dead troopers got a war of rhetoric, not an inquiry.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Rajnath Singh",
   "r": "Defence Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah / Rajnath Singh",
   "r": "Home Ministry (CRPF)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government treated it as terrorism and answered with the Balakot airstrikes; it did not act on Malik's later claims.",
 "alleg": "The lapse claims are those of <em>former Governor Satya Pal Malik</em> and remain unexamined by any public inquiry.",
 "alt": "An independent, published inquiry into the intelligence and logistics failure. The least owed to 40 dead men and their families.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The Wire: Satya Pal Malik's Pulwama claims (2023)",
   "url": "https://thewire.in/politics/satya-pal-malik-full-interview-pulwama-modi",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260630205137/https://thewire.in/politics/satya-pal-malik-full-interview-pulwama-modi"
  },
  {
   "label": "Indian Express: Pulwama convoy movement, Feb 2019",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pulwama-attack-crpf-constable-convoy-ghastly-sight-scream-bus-disappeared-kashmir-car-bomb-5586642/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20230605223053/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pulwama-attack-crpf-constable-convoy-ghastly-sight-scream-bus-disappeared-kashmir-car-bomb-5586642/"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 40
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-6/"
}