Kamte’s wife gets RTI order to seek police record

The Maharashtra Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked city police to allow Vinita Kamte,widow of slain police officer Ashok Kamte,scrutiny of the original transcripts of telephone calls between control room and police officers on the day of terror attacks last year. CIO Suresh Joshi has also asked the police to provide copies of original transcripts of telephone calls and control room log book and documents to Vinita within 30 days. The order was passed on Vinita’s appeal against the order of a Deputy Police Commissioner who allowed her scrutiny of documents but refused to provide copies of the originals. Kamte and two other police officers,Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar,were shot dead by terrorists Abu Ismail and Ajmal Kasab on November 26 last year.