New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said he will look into the matter of Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare's bulletproof jacket.
His wife, Kavita Karkare, had filed an RTI asking for details of Hemant Karkare's bulletproof jacket, but the Maharashtra government has now told her that the jacket was misplaced in the chaos. However, Chavan has promised action into Kavita Karkare's plea.
Karkare died in the 26/11 attack in Mumbai after he was shot at eight times by terrorists. He was wearing his bulletproof jacket at the time of the attack. When Hemant Karkare was taken to the hospital after being shot, the doctors had removed the jacket from his body. It was misplaced in the chaos at J J Hospital according to government's reply.
A few months ago, the Maharashtra government was in the midst of a controversy over the quality of bulletproof jackets provided to the Mumbai Police.
While the Mumbai Police had then claimed that the file on the purchase of bulletproof jackets had gone missing, CNN-IBN had learnt that the file did exist and that it contained doubts on the quality of the jackets.
Sources within the Mumbai Police had told CNN-IBN that the file was not lost, but was being protected from public scrutiny to possibly avoid controversial details from coming out in the open.
Sources also said that in 2004, samples of the jackets were sent for a trial at the firing range of the State Reserve Police Force. They were fitted on dummies and sprayed with and bullets from self-loading rifles and AK-47s. Every single bullet went through the jackets even though the rounds were fired from a distance.
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