“It’s ironic that we did have such a warning, and we did have some measures (for the additional security),” Tata told a US news channel the CNN from Mumbai.

Hotel mutilated

The over 100-years-old iconic hotel stands mutilated in the financial capital of India after about 60-hour-long siege by terrorists who indulged in arson and explosions before being gunned down by the national security guard (NSG) commandos on Saturday morning.

Ratan Tata rued that post attack crisis infrastructure was, “woefully poor.”

“The attacks revealed deficiencies in law enforcement, especially in areas of crisis response and management,” he said.

“We are indignant but not scared,” Tata said. Although he did not elaborate on the additional security measures at the hotel, Ratan Tata felt even those steps could not have prevented the terrorists from entering the hotel.

Metal detector

Speaking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, he said: “People could not park their cars in the portico, because they had to go through a metal detector,” following the additional security arrangements being put in place at the lanmark hotel.

“If I look at what (measures) we had (enacted)... it could not have stopped what took place,” Tata said.
He added  that the attackers did not come through the front door, where additional security measures had been temporarily put in place.

“They did not come through that entrance... they came from somewhere in the back. All of our arrangements were in the front,” Ratan Tata told the channel.