<p class="title">The Supreme Court on Thursday trashed a plea made by former Maharashtra police officer to probe into the death of anti-terrorist squad chief Hemant Karkare during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said there was no point in examining the issue after the terrorist (Ajmal Kasab) was caught, tried and executed by the order of the apex court.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Now, you want the police to reopen everything, you may have genuine doubt but that can't get colour of evidence,” the bench told senior advocate Indira Jaising, representing former Maharashtra IGP S M Mushrif.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mushrif had challenged a Bombay High Court's order dismissing his PIL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaising contended that the officer had written two books and presented a point of view pertaining to a conspiracy of the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There is no question of reopening everything now after the SC affirmed death penalty for accused Kasab, the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mushrif, in his book <span class="italic"><em>Who Killed Karkare</em></span>, claimed the intelligence bureau had masterminded Karkare's killing who was investigating Hindu radicals in several terror cases.</p>
<p class="title">The Supreme Court on Thursday trashed a plea made by former Maharashtra police officer to probe into the death of anti-terrorist squad chief Hemant Karkare during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said there was no point in examining the issue after the terrorist (Ajmal Kasab) was caught, tried and executed by the order of the apex court.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Now, you want the police to reopen everything, you may have genuine doubt but that can't get colour of evidence,” the bench told senior advocate Indira Jaising, representing former Maharashtra IGP S M Mushrif.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mushrif had challenged a Bombay High Court's order dismissing his PIL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaising contended that the officer had written two books and presented a point of view pertaining to a conspiracy of the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There is no question of reopening everything now after the SC affirmed death penalty for accused Kasab, the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mushrif, in his book <span class="italic"><em>Who Killed Karkare</em></span>, claimed the intelligence bureau had masterminded Karkare's killing who was investigating Hindu radicals in several terror cases.</p>
