The call records showed that he had neither called nor received a call from Singh during that period, a senior police officer said on condition of anonimity. Karkare had left his office at 5 pm that day and, therefore, he could not be reached on office landline after that hour.
Singh's claim is that he had called Karkare two hours before the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, so it must be around 7 pm that the purported conversation took place.
But call records don’t support the claim. Singh also could not have spoken to Karkare at his residence as the ATS chief had gone to attend a meeting with the then Mumbai police commissioner Hassan Gafoor around 7 pm, and then gone to meet Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil at the state secretariat between 8:30 and 9:30 pm.
The call records show that Karkare had only spoken to two police officials for more than two minutes between 5 pm and 8 pm on 26/11 night.
However, Singh continued to maintain that he had spoken to Hemant Karkare a few hours before the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008.
“I am trying to get the records and I am sure those who are saying that I did not talk to Karkare would be proved wrong,” he said.