Mumbai:
Where is the bulletproof jacket of Hemant Karkare? His wife Kavita Karkare who had filed an RTI to get this information, says she has been told it's missing.
The wife of the late ATS chief has raised serious questions on the disappearance of the bulletproof jacket worn by her husband on the night of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
She said even after she filed an RTI application, she was told the jacket is just missing. "When his body was found, the bulletproof jacket was missing. I filed an RTI application a few months ago asking where is the jacket but the reply I got was that it is missing, she said.
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 during the November 26 terror attacks last year.
Despite wearing bullet-proof jackets, the officer received three fatal bullet-injuries in chest which raised question mark over the efficacy of these jackets in the wake of such terror attacks.
"TV channel recording clearly shows Hemant wearing a jacket at CST and leaving in the van...so where did the jacket go...I do not know if someone took it from him after that or it was removed from his body later, but it is missing...," she said.