11 Facts About Hemant Karkare

Hemant Karkare was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Hemant Karkare was credited with solving the serial bombing cases in Thane, Vashi and Panvel, and led the investigation of the 2008 Malegaon blasts.

Hemant Karkare was married to Kavita Karkare, a college professor.

Hemant Karkare obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in 1975.

Hemant Karkare joined the Indian Police Service as a member of the 1982 batch.

Hemant Karkare served seven years in Austria as an agent of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.

Hemant Karkare's ATS identified, for the first time, Hindutva organisations as being responsible for terrorism in India, and political commentators began to call it Hindutva terror or Saffron terror.

Hemant Karkare is currently facing charges of Unlawful Activities Act and other Indian Penal Code sections and a trial is ongoing as of April 2019.

Hemant Karkare contested and won the Bhopal seat during the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.

Vinita claims that Hemant Karkare's repeated pleas for reinforcement to block the passage of the terrorists fleeing Cama Hospital went unheeded for over an hour.

In 2018, the Bombay High Court discarded a pending petition that had claimed that Hemant Karkare was not gunned down by terrorists Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail.