2. HEMANT KARKARE
• Hemant Karkare (12 December 1954 – 27 November 2008)
was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).
He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks
after being shot three times in the chest.His bravery was
honoured with the Ashoka Chakra on 26 January 2009.
• Karkare succeeded K. P. Raghuvanshi as the Chief of ATS
in January 2008 and was eventually succeeded by
Raghuvanshi after he was killed on 26 November 2008.
He was credited with solving the serial bombing cases in
Thane, Vashi and Panvel, and led the investigation of the
2008 Malegaon blasts.
3. EDUCATION&CAREER
• Karkare came from a Karhade Brahmin family. He did his primary
schooling from Chittranjan Das Municipal Primary School, Wardha
and then middle school and high school education from New English
High School, Wardha. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree
in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of
Technology, Nagpur in 1975.
• He joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) as a member of the 1982
batch. Before becoming ATS Chief of Maharashtra State in
January 2008, he was Joint Commissioner of Police
(Administration) of Mumbai Police.He served seven years in
Austria in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external
intelligence agency. According to former senior Mumbai Police
officer Y.C. Pawar, Mr. Karkare was regarded as very influential
officer in police circles.(Times of India Nov.28 2008).
4. MALEGAON INVESTIGATION
• On 29 September 2008, three bombs exploded in Modasa, Gujarat
and Malegaon, Maharashtra killing eight persons, and injuring 80.
Several unexploded bombs were found in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Hemant Karkare, as the chief of the state Anti-Terror Squad, led
the investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blasts.In late October
2008, the ATS arrested eleven suspects, all Hindu, including a
former ABVP student leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Swami
Amritananda , a retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and a serving
Army officer Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit.Most of the accused
belonged to a radical Hindutva group called Abhinav Bharat with
prior links to Sangh Parivar organisations. Karkare's ATS
identified, for the first time, Hindutva organisations as being
responsible for terrorism in India, and political commentators
began to call it Hindutva terror or Saffron terror.
5. Opposition parties, including the Bharatiya Janta Party and Shiv Sena, and Hindu
organizations alleged that the arrests were made under the pressure of the
incumbent government, in an attempt to appease India's Muslim population. These
parties called him 'a traitor to the nation' for his investigation in this direction.Some
BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leaders
accused the ATS of being used as a tool to attack the Sangh Parivar and of using
illegal detention and torture.
6. 2008 MUMBAI ATTACK
• In November 2008, allegedly 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar-
e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organisation, carried out a series of
12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days
across Mumbai. The attacks, which drew widespread global
condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted
until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and
wounding at least 308.
• Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati
Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace &
Tower,Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, the Nariman House
Jewish community centre, the Metro Cinema,[and in a lane
behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier's College.
7. ]There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in Mumbai's port area, and in a taxi at
Vile Parle. By the early morning of 28 November, all sites except for the Taj hotel had
been secured by Mumbai Police and security forces. On 29 November, India's
National Security Guards (NSG) conducted 'Operation Black Tornado' to flush out
the remaining attackers; it resulted in the deaths of the last remaining attackers at the
Taj hotel and ending all fighting in the attacks.
8. • Ajmal Kasab disclosed that
the attackers were members
of Lashkar-e-Taiba, among
others. The Government of
India said that the attackers
came from Pakistan, and
their controllers were in
Pakistan. On 7 January 2009,
On 9 April 2015; the
foremost mastermind of the
attacks Zaki ur Rehman
Lakhvi was granted bail
against surety bonds of
₹200,000 (US$3,000)
14. DEATH
• At 9.45 p.m. while having his dinner at his Dadar residence, he
received a call about a terrorist attack at Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus
(C.S.T.) station. He switched on the TV for news and left at once with
his driver and bodyguards for C.S.T. There he donned a bullet-proof
vest and helmet (shown on news channels live), and went to Platform
No.1, but found it deserted. He was then informed that the terrorists
had moved to the Cama and Albless Hospital ("Cama") next to the
Azad Maidan police station.
• The operation was difficult as it was dark and the terrorists were well
prepared and virtually on a fidayeen mission. The officers, with a few
constables, went into Cama from the back and Kamte fired at the
terrorist. A couple of constables were left stationed at the back
entrance of Cama, while the rest boarded a Qualis jeep. Salaskar asked
the driver to let him take over at the wheel. About that time, they
heard on the wireless that the terrorists were hiding behind a red car.
15. As they turned from the Crime Branch office
towards Rang Bhavan looking for the red car,
near the Corporation Bank ATM, they saw a
terrorist running. Kamte or Salaskar - or both
- fired, the bullet hitting the terrorist on his
arm, his AK-47 fell down. He was Kasab, the
lone terrorist captured alive later. As they
were thinking of getting down, a second
terrorist, Ismail Khan appeared and fired a
volley of bullets at them. All but one Assistant
Police Inspector Jadhav died.
Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Salaskar and
others died in fighting the Mumbai attacks, on
27 November 2008 in a narrow lane between
St. Xavier's College and Rang Bhavan, just a
stone throw away from the Crime Branch
office.
