Nine years after 26/11, Mumbai police set to get new bulletproof jackets

Vests worn by police were sub-standard, and no more than 110 jackets were available during 26/11

Mumbai police are set to get new bulletproof vests nine years after 26/11, when the then Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief, Hemant Karkare and his colleagues were killed due to sub-standard protection. The vests used by the police during the attacks were no match for the terrorists’ AK 47s, which claimed Karkare’s life as well as the lives of Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar that night. 

The Mumbai Police faced inadequate supply of bulletproof jackets as only 110 were ordered back in 2001. Investigations later revealed that the vests were of a sub-standard quality and