26/11 would have been dubbed as ‘Hindu terror’ attack: Maria

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.

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,  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…