India Tomorrow
New Delhi, April 28—Jui Navare, daughter of slain Mnaharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) cop Hemant Karkare who was killed in Mumbai 26/11 terror attack has finally spoken her mind in 11 years about her father.
“I do not want to dignify her or her statement. I only want to talk about Hemant Karkare. He was a role model and his name should be taken with dignity,” Navare said according to a report in The Indian Express.
Navare said that she wants everyone to remember that “even in his death he was trying to save his city, his country” and that he placed his uniform before his own life and family.
While speaking to the daily from home in the United States, Navare said she read about the statement made by the 2008 Malegaon terror-accused and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Sadhvi Pragya Thakur about her father “on social media”.
“He taught us that terrorism has no religion. No religion teaches anyone to kill each other… it’s the ideology that has to be defeated. In his life, in his 24-year career in the police, he helped everyone. Even in his death, he was trying to save his city, his country. He loved his uniform and placed it before us and before his own life. I just want everyone to remember that,” she said.
A month before the Mumbai attacks, Thakur was arrested in the Malegaon terror attack case by Karkare in October 2008.
Navare also said her father was “completely occupied” with the (Malegaon) investigation and her mother always “feared for his life” because she “was very worried about the case and its implications”. Karkare’s wife died in 2014 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
“On the case, I fully supported his findings. I knew whatever he did would be correct. He was an officer who went by the book. I know him as a daughter… A person like him would always ensure justice. It was always obvious for me… I never vocalised it,” she said.
