Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 28 -- * Rs. 2.5-crore Mobile Command Centre stationed elsewhere as blast occurs near Palace on busy tourist weekend

* Yesterday the Mobile Command Centre was parked unused at CAR Grounds because there was no driver!

While the Mysore Palace and its surroundings were teeming with visitors and tourists on Thursday evening during the helium cylinder blast where three persons were killed, the Mobile Command Centre - launched by the City Police in 2018 to assist personnel in maintaining law and order during large gatherings - was inexplicably stationed at Udayagiri Circle in the northern part of the city.

In a startling development, sources confirmed that the Mobile Command Centre was neither summoned nor deployed at the ...