Eight former DGP’s have strongly condemned the remark of BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur about Hemant Karkare, and demanded those who laid down their lives for the country be respected.
In a statement, the former DGPs said the country owes Karkare, who headed the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad and was martyred during the 26/11 terror attack, a huge debt of gratitude and anything that detracts from this is worthy of strong condemnation.
Those who condemned Sadhwi’s statement include: former Punjab DGP Julio Ribeiro, former BSF chief and UP and Assam DGP Prakash Singh, former Kerala DGPs PKH Tharakan and Jacob Punoose, former National Police Academy (Hyderabad) DGP Kamal Kumar, former Maharashtra DGP Sanjeev Dayal, former Assam DGP and NSG DG Jayanto N. Choudhury, and N Ramachandran, ex-DGP Meghalaya.
Addressing BJP workers in Bhopal last week, Thakur had claimed that Karkare died during the attack as she had “cursed” him for “torturing” her when he probed the Malegaon blast case as the chief of the ATS.
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