Mumbai:
The Mumbai Police have filed an FIR at JJ Marg police station on the missing bullet-proof jacket of former Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare.
The Mazgaon Metropolitan Court had on Monday ordered the Mumbai Police to investigate the case of Karkare's missing bullet-proof jacket.
The court order came on the complaint of a Mumbai resident, Santosh Daundkar, who had moved court over the bullet-proof jacket having gone missing from Sir JJ Hospital, where Karkare's body was taken for an autopsy after he was shot dead at Cama Hospital during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Karkare's wife, Kavita, had filed an RTI application to know about the quality of the bullet-proof jacket. In reply she was told that her husband's jacket had gone missing. An angry Kavita raised several questions including how martyred heroes were treated shabbily while crores of rupees were spent to preserve the bodies of terrorists.
"I have repeatedly met senior police officers to find out how my husband died but no one has given me any answer. I have been told that I will never know how he died. Even his bulletproof vest has gone missing - the vest's procurement file marks it missing. I always suspected they would say that the jacket has gone missing," she had said. (
Read: Where is 26/11 hero Karkare's jacket?)
Home Minister P Chidambaram later apologised for the missing jacket.
Karkare, a 1982 batch IPS officer, was killed in an ambush near Cama Hospital, along with another IPS officer Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar. (
Read: Who was Hemant Karkare)
Despite wearing bullet-proof jackets, the officers received three fatal bullet-injuries in chest which raised question mark over the efficacy of these jackets in the wake of such terror attacks. (
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