A red-tape disaster

Thanks to the ways the bureaucrats work in India, the most precious piece of information in the Ahmedabad blast investigation is lost forever!
It is the initial few hours that could have led the cops to the terror operatives. Instead, the cops waited for seven hours for VSNL, the concerned Internet Service Provider, to facilitate this crucial probe. Just five minutes before the series of 19 blasts shook Ahmedabad to its core and left more than 50 dead, a terror mail from Indian Mujahideen reached many media houses across the country.
The crime branch immediately tried to trace the mail but it was thwarted by red tape.
VSNL took its own sweet time to comply.
"If we had got the Machine Access Code (MAC) right then, we would have been hot on trail. The information reached us only at 2.30 am! By then, it was too late. The culprits had got enough time to cover their tracks," said a senior crime branch official.