Friends,
Though this does not concern our group exactly, but as we are all
aware, the incidents in Mumbai, which are still not completely over,
in which ATS chief of Mumbai Police Hemant Karkare -- who was
investigating the Malegaon blast case, Additional Commissioner Ashok
Kamte, another Additional Commissioner Sadanand Date, noted
encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar, ATS sub-inspector Sudhir Dalvi
and many other police officers were killed in different accidents
during a series of encounters in Mumbai, must be among the most
tragic and gruesome incidents in Independent India's history. This
is more bizarre and unthinkable than I could even have dreamt.
54-year-old Mr. Karkare, who was the 1982 batch Indian Police
Service (IPS) officer, held a Bachelor of Engineering degree from
Vishveshvarayya Regional Engineering in Nagpur. Before joining ATS,
he was aslso with the RAW (the external intelligence wing of our
country) for nine years . For a long time, he also served in the
Naxalite-infested Chandarpur area of the state. He had solved the
serial bomb blasts in Thane, Vashi and Panvel. He was credited for
the stunning revelations in the investigation of the September 29
blast in Malegaon goes to his credit. He was known for his
discipline and fair investigation. During the Malegaon
investigation, Karkare had told his officers not to create false
evidence, said, "We have done our job and it is for the court to
decide." During the Malegaon enquiry, he was subjected to a lot of
criticism from many quarters. He even got a threat of his house
getting blown up. His brave act of fighting the terrorists ended in
tragedy.
Additional police commissioner Ashok Marutirao Kamte had served as
Commissioner of Police for Solapur District earlier to his current
posting. He was an IPS officer of 1989 batch. He also got killed in
a shootout at the Metro Cinema in Mumbai long with Hemant Karkare
and Vijay Salaskar. He was a Graduate from The Rajkumar College,
Rajkot in 1977, was a body builder and power-lifter who had won six
gold and silver medals in power-lifting and held three records for
the sport. He was also DCP, Zone 1 in Mumbai, and was known as a key
officer in the state police, who had always been in the thick of the
action.
Vijay Salaskar, who was reportedly sidelined for the last two years
for unearthing the gutka-underworld nexus, was recently attached to
the crime branch, where he currently headed the anti-extortion cell.
An officer of the 1983 batch, Salaskar in his 24 years of service
has eliminated many criminals. Amar Naik, Jaggu Shetty, Sadhu
Shetty, Kundan Singh Rawat, Zahoor Makhanda are some of the
gangsters who had fallen to Salaskar's bullets. He was also known to
have acted in a real tough manner against Arun Gawli. He had killed
his two trusted men, Sada Pawle and Vijay Tandel, in 1997 during an
enclounter. Gawli remained rightly scared of Salaskar all through.
Sadanand Date, again an officer of Indian Police Service and a DIG
of police, had previously served in the state and also in the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He held a Doctorate from Pune
University, a master's degree in commerce, and was also a qualified
cost and management accountant. In his 17-year policing career, Mr.
Date had held several important posts in state and national police
organizations. He had also got the Humphrey fellowship in the year
2005-06 in the University of Minnesota Law School, where he studied
the theoretical and practical aspects of controlling white-collar
and organized crime in the United States.
Loss of such creams, along with the rest of the people, including
the Indian and foreign citizen, is a moment of great sorrow and
rethinking for all of us. This is a moment when we will have to go
for a complete rethinking out what means and methodology we need to
adopt so that this repeatedly occurring menace of terrorism is
completely wiped out.
There can be no denial to the fact that this is not only a great
moment of tragedy for India but is also one for the highest concern.
We must pay our highest tributes to these slain police personnel who
laid their lives for the sake of their nation-making the supreme
sacrifice and must also pray for the peace of all the departed souls.Amitabh Thakur,
SP(Intll),
Faizabad
UP
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