The Maharashtra government has decided to construct a memorial in honor of the sub-inspector Ashok Chakram winner Tukaram Ombale of the Mumbai Police, who was martyred in the 26/11 terror attack. This monument will be built in his ancestral village Kedambe in Satara district, where Tukaram Ombale was born.
The Maharashtra government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 13.46 crore for the construction of this monument. The first installment of this sanctioned amount has been made available to the administration of Rs 2.70 crore (20%) Tukaram Ombale was the same police personnel who caught Ajmal Kasab alive.
Tukaram ate 23 bullets on the chest
Tukaram, while showing bravery, stopped Kasab and Ismail Khan near Girgaon Chowpatty. Tukaram had held Kasab's rifle so firmly that he could not even rotate it. This was the reason that the lives of other policemen could be saved and Kasab could be caught alive. During that time, 23 bullets were fired from Kasab, but still he did not even let his gun move. He was martyred in this attack.
In that attack, Maharashtra Police has given Joint Commissioner Hemant Karkare (who was also the head of the anti -terrorist squad in those days), Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, Encounter Specialist Inspector Vijay Salskar, Senior Inspector Shashank Shinde, NSG Commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, NSG Commando Havaldar Gajendra Singh Bishtar Railway Officers were martyred.
What happened on the night of 26/11
After targeting the CST railway station on the night of 26/11, Ajmal Kasab and his associate Ismail Khan targeted Cama Hospital. Both the terrorists reached the back door of the hospital, but the hospital staff closed all the doors from inside. But both of them attacked the police team sitting outside the hospital, in which 6 policemen including ATS Chief Hemant Karkare were killed.
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