TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria has claimed that had Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab not been caught alive, the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack would have been dubbed as the handiwork of “Hindu” terrorists. Kasab’s body would have been found with an I-card bearing a fictitious Hindu name, Maria writes in his memoir Let Me Say It Now released recently. In the 624-page book, Maria writes extensively about the investigation helmed by him in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.
“If all had gone well, he (Kasab) would have been dead with a red string tied around his wrist like a Hindu. We would have found an identity card on his person with a fictitious name: Samir Dinesh Chaudhari, student of Arunodaya Degree and P.G. College, Vedre Complex, Dilkhushnagar, Hyderabad, 500060, resident of 254, Teachers Colony, Nagarabhavi, Bengaluru,” Maria writes.”Ramesh Mahale, Prashant Marde and Dinesh Kadam would have been on their way to Hyderabad to find more about him. There would have been screaming headlines in newspapers claiming how Hindu terrorists had attacked Mumbai. Over-the-top TV journalists would have made a beeline for Bengaluru to interview his family and neighbours,” he wrote.
Mahale, Marde and Kadam were senior police officers involved in 26/11 attack investigation. Maria’s book also mentions that Pakistan’s ISI and the Lashkar-e-Taiba were ISI and the Lashkar were bent upon killing Kasab by “hook or by crook” after he was caught alive by ASI Tukaram Ombale. Maria writes that Kasab felt Muslims were not allowed to offer namaaz in India. “He seriously believed that Muslims were not allowed to offer namaaz in India and mosques were locked up by the authorities. He felt that the azaan he heard five times a day in the Crime Branch lock-up was just a figment of his imagination.
