Former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare was killed while fighting terrorists during 26/11 Mumbai attack in 2008. He was leading the probe into the 2008 Malegaon attack, in which six persons were killed and 101 were injured. An engineer who joined the police forceBorn in 1954, Karkare was from Madhya Pradesh and did his schooling in Wardha. The Malegaon caseThe Anti-Terrorism Squad believed that it had solved the case with the arrest of 11 persons for their alleged involvement in the 2008 Malegaon blast. The pressure is tremendous and I am wondering how to extricate it from all the politics,” Karkare told The Indian Express at the time.

Source: Indian Express April 19, 2019 10:07 UTC