Staff Reporter / New Delhi
Indian Police Service (Central) Association today condemned ‘insulting statement’ made by Terror accused Sadhvi Pragya Thakur against Ashok Chakra awardee late Hemant Karkare. It said that people must give respect to the people in uniform as they deserve.
In tweet the Association said “Ashok Chakra awardee late Sri Hemant Karkare, IPS made the supreme sacrifice fighting terrorists. Those of us in uniform condemn the insulting statement made by a candidate and demand that sacrifices of all our martyrs be respected”.
Ashok Chakra awardee late Sri Hemant Karkare, IPS made the supreme sacrifice fighting terrorists. Those of us in uniform condemn the insulting statement made by a candidate and demand that sacrifices of all our martyrs be respected.
— IPS Association (@IPS_Association) April 19, 2019
The Indian Police Service (IPS) constituted under Article 312 of the Constitution of India, is one of the three All India services, the other two being IAS and IFS. Its total Cadre strength is 4756 across 26 State/Joint Cadres
The BJP candidate from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat Sadhvi Pragya Thakur today said that Karkare was killed because she had cursed him. Karkare had died fighting terrorists during 26/11 Mumbai attack. He was leading the probe into the Malegaon attack case.
A complaint was filed on Friday with the Election Commission in Madhya Pradesh against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, BJP candidate from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, for her comments on former Mumbai Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare. Thakur had said that Karkare was killed because she had cursed him.
“Complaint received against BJP Lok Sabha candidate for Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, for her comments on 26/11 martyr (former Mumbai ATS Chief Hemant Karkare). Cognizance is taken. The matter is under enquiry,” Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer said.
Karkare had died fighting terrorists during 26/11 Mumbai attack. He was leading the probe into the Malegaon attack case.
“I called Hemant Karkare and asked him to let me go if there is no evidence (against me). He (Karkare) said that he will bring evidence but will not leave me. I told him — You will be ruined,” Sadhvi Thakur said in a video released by the news agency.
She added that Karkare had asked her if he should go to God to get proof of her conviction in the terror case. Responding to him, Thakur said that if he feels, he should go. After that the former ATS officer was killed, she claimed.
Karkare, along with senior police officials Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar, were killed outside Cama Hospital in south Mumbai after Ajmal Kasab and his partner Abu Ismail opened fire at their police van during the terror attack in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.