Tuesday 9 December 2014

Maharashtra Policemen honor their Martyred colleagues

Mumbai cannot afford to forget the 26/11 attack by trained extremists. In the fight back Mumbai lost its 14 brilliant officers and police men. Almost 30 policemen suffered injuries in the counter operations. To help the families of these martyred policemen & those who sustained injuries, the police men in Maharashtra themselves came forward and voluntarily contributed Rs 200, Rs 400 & Rs 800 individually and collected Rs 2.12 crores. This amount was distributed amongst those killed and injured. This information was revealed to RTI Activist Anil Galgali by the Maharashtra Police Head quarters.

RTI Activist Anil Galgali had filed an RTI query with the Maharashtra Police HQ seeking information about the wireless message relayed to all policemen to contribute in a fund to financially help those policemen who were killed or injured in the 26/11 attack, Galgali sought information's about how much fund was collected and how was the fund utilized? In a reply to the query the Public Information Officer & Senior Dy Asst Inspector General of Police Shri P K Ghuge informed that, the police men totally contributed Rs 2,11,89,921=00 in the fund. On 29/11/2008, the then DGP Shri Anami Roy had appealed for the contribution from all the policemen, Every Staff contributed Rs 200/= each, Officers contributed Rs 400/= each & Senior Police Officers (The rank of SP and above) contributed Rs 800/= each. Out of the collected fund the 14 martyred policemen and the 30 injured policemen were distributed the money. Those killed were given Rs 10 Lakhs each & those who sustained injuries were giver Rs 3 Lakhs each.

RTI Activist Anil Galgali has praised the efforts all the policemen in Maharashtra Police and stated that, such an effort was the need of the day, this new and innovative step will certainly help in boosting the morale of every policemen and also provide solace and confidence to the families of the martyred policemen and to those injured that the whole state police is completely backing them in this hour of grief.

# Families of the Martyred Police men

Kavita Hemant Karkare.

Vinita Ashok Kamte.

Smita Vijay Salaskar.

Madhavi Prakash More.

Aruna Bapurao Durgude.

Sharda Balwant Bhosale

Tarabai Tukaram Ombale.

Manisha Arun Chitte.

Shraddha Vijay Khandekar

Pratibha Jaywant Patil

Kalpana Ambadas Pawar

Shivaji Fakira Patil

Manasi Shashank Shinde

Subhash Vishnu Shinde.


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