Nagpur: Sitabuldi Police in Nagpur registered a non-cognisable offence against Vijay Wadettiwar, Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, for his remark that the then ATS chief Hemant Karkare was not killed by the bullet of terrorist Ajmal Kasab during the 26/11 attack but by one fired by a policeman close to the RSS.
The complaint was lodged by Sanjay Rambhau Bokade, Assistant Election Officer and In-charge of the FST Squad for alleged violation of the model code of conduct amid Lok Sabha polls. Bokade, in his complaint, stated that Wadettiwar made these remarks in front of media persons at his Ramdaspeth residence in Nagpur on May 5.
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It is also mentioned in the complaint that Om Pathak, on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had moved the Election Commission against Wadettiwar as he had also called Ujjwal Nikam, the Special Prosecutor in the 26/11 trial and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Central, ‘anti national’ for hiding this ‘fact’.
The complaint had sought action against Wadettiwar under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Representation of the People Act. However, police registered a non-cognisable offence against him.
Karkare was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks and was posthumously given the Ashoka Chakra in 2009. Ajmal Kasab was the only one of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who attacked Mumbai in 2008 and killed 166 people, to be caught alive. He was placed in a Mumbai jail for nearly four years and hanged in Pune in November 2012.
Wadettiwar purportedly called BJP’s Ujjwal Nikam an “anti-national” and accused him of hiding the information that then Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare wasn’t killed by Kasab’s bullet during the 26/11 terror attack, but fell to a bullet of a policeman who was affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
