Karkare did call,Digvijaya to show his phone records today

“Despite the fact that BSNL does not keep records of calls for more than a year,I got the record after talking to some concerned people and I will be showing it to you tomorrow,” Singh told The Indian Express on Monday.

“People called me liar… Now I have a letter from BSNL about the call records that will prove what I said. The call came from his (Karkare’s) office landline on my mobile phone number 9425015461,” Singh said.

Singh had told this newspaper on December 11 that the ATS chief had called him at 7 pm on 26/11,just about three hours before he was killed. Acording to Singh,Karkare had told him he was disturbed after receiving threats from people opposed to his probe into the Malegaon bomb blast,allegedly carried out by Hindu extremists.

Singh’s claim was immediately rubbished by Karkare’s widow Kavita,and Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil subsequently told the Assembly there were no records of the purported call. The Opposition accused Singh of playing into the hands of ISI and Pakistan.

However,Singh insisted he had spoken to Karkare that night,even as he clarified that he had “absolutely no doubt” that the officer had been killed by Pakistani terrorists. He said he had asked BSNL for the call records,but had been told that records were not kept for more than 13 months.