SC trashes bid to reopen probe into Karkare's death

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.

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.

“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.

Mushrif had challenged a Bombay High Court's order dismissing his PIL.

Jaising contended that the officer had written two books and presented a point of view pertaining to a conspiracy of the incident.

There is no question of reopening everything now after the SC affirmed death penalty for accused Kasab, the bench said.

Mushrif, in his book Who Killed Karkare, claimed the intelligence bureau had masterminded Karkare's killing who was investigating Hindu radicals in several terror cases.