New Delhi, November 14: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today said he will “find out the truth” in the claims that ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks because of a faulty bulletproof jacket he was wearing.
“I will find out what is the truth in the matter,” Chavan told reporters here when asked about claims that the jacket worn by Karkare was defective.
A PIL filed in the Bombay High Court had claimed that the bullet proof vests worn by Karkare and two other senior officers while fighting terrorists on November 26 last belonged to the batch of 110 defective pieces purchased by the police way back in 2002.
This comes in the wake of revelations by Karkare’s widow Kavita that the bullet proof jacket worn by her husband was missing. She had filed an RTI request in this regard.
–PTI