Mumbai’s Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, who fell to terror attack, was cremated with full state honours

Mumbai Additional Commissioner of police Ashok Kamte was all set to come to Pune on December 3 to celebrate his elder son Rahul’s birthday. Wanting to keep it a surprise, he had applied for leave in advance. However, fate had willed otherwise as the senior police officer was gunned down by terrorists in Mumbai.

On Thursday, Kamte’s body was brought by road from J J Hospital, Mumbai, to their ancestral house at Rakshak Society at 1.15 pm. His sister-in-law and former mayor Vandana Chavan accompanied Kamte’s wife Vinita and son Rahul to Mumbai and collected the body from J J Hospital at 6.30 am and brought the body by ambulance.

Chavan said that from what Kamte told his wife during a conversation last night, it was clear that the senior officer was “excited” to go for the operation.

“When he heard about the incident, he wasted no time in rushing to the spot. Summoning his constables after he received calls from his senior, he immediately moved for the operation,’’ she said.

It seems he told his boys that they better eat something for they had a long night ahead. He told Vinita that he was going for the operation and when she called him up to inform him about some relatives being stranded in Mumbai, he just told her, “I am in the midst of the operation.”

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