Finally,cops file FIR on Hemant Karkare’s missing bulletproof jacket

However,after the police allegedly refused to file the case,he filed a petition in the Mazgaon court seeking police intervention under section 156(3) of the CrPC.

The RTI reply had stated that “the clothes worn by martyr respected Hemant Karkare on his body,his pant,shirt,underwear and baniyan were seized on a panchnama,and they have been submitted to the Hon’ble Court as muddemal (i.e. case property). The police party,which had shifted martyr respected Hemant Karkare from the scene of crime to JJ Hospital,had stated that while shifting martyr respected Hemant Karkare his bulletproof jacket was with him. However,during the examination by the doctor,his bulletproof jacket was taken out. An extensive search was carried out but no information on that could be obtained.”

As the jacket went missing at the JJ Hospital that falls in the jurisdiction of the JJ Marg police station,the magistrate had ordered the JJ police to investigate the case.

“The probe would unravel how and when the jacket went missing. We strongly suspect the role of powerful and influential people. However,now that the case has been registered,the police will be armed with statutory powers to carry out search,summon witnesses and arrest offenders,” said Daundkar’s lawyer and former IPS officer Y P Singh.

“The case cannot be closed without the orders of the court and that too not without the complainant being given a chance to object and argue,” he added.