New Delhi:
NDTV has learned that the missing file on Mumbai Police's faulty bulletproof jackets has been found, but some important pages are missing from it.
Three clerks of the procurement department have been suspended, sources said, adding the report of the file being found had been sent to the Home Ministry.
The file pertains to the purchase of bulletproof jackets in 2007. The Anti-Corruption Bureau had found them to be sub-standard. NDTV had first reported on the procurement of sub-standard jackets.
The bulletproof jacket that Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare had been wearing on the night of 26/11 when he was killed by terrorists, is alleged to have been one of these sub-standard jackets.
Karkare's jacket went missing after his death and his wife Kavita had filed a right to information petition to know what happened to it.
On Tuesday, more than a year after Karkare's death, a sweeper at JJ Hospital in Mumbai said he may have thrown away the bulletproof jacket on November 27 last year.
(Read: Hospital worker says he threw away Karkare's jacket)The sweeper, Dinesh Lalji Gatar, recorded his statement before a magistrate admitting he had put a "jacket" in a garbage disposal bag as part of the medical waste disposed the day after Karkare died.
Police are now investigating if this indeed was the missing jacket of Hemant Karkare.
Karkare's wife, however, has said it is a cover-up by the government. She says she doesn't believe in this new theory.
(Read and watch: Kavita Karkare says sweeper's claim is a cover up)