Ashok Kamte (died November 26, 2008) was the Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region. He was killed while fighting terrorists during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
An Indian Police Service officer of the 1989 batch of the Maharashtra Cadre, Kamte also served as the Commissioner of Police of Solapur, as the Superintendent of Police of Sangli district from August 2002 to July 2004, as the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mumbai Police for the South Region's Zone 1 until August 2002, and earlier on deputation to the United Nations International Police Task Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mumbai Police and Solapur are commissionerates and Sangli is a district of the Maharashtra Police in India.
In his police career, Kamte earned a substantial following of ordinary citizens as he took on hardened criminals and politicians with criminal background. Shortly after his taking over the Sangli police department, notorious criminal Raju Pujari was killed in a police encounter. During Mumbai's occasional communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, the areas under his supervision remained largely free of riots. He was known to be a secular officer and equally loved and respected by both communities.
Kamte studied at the St. Xavier's College, Bombay, the Kodaikanal International School, class of 1982, and the Raj Kumar College in Rajkot from 1972 to 1977 in class III to VIII. An accomplished athlete, he represented India at the junior power-lifting championship in Peru in 1978.
(read less)Ashok Kamte (died November 26, 2008) was the Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region. He was killed while fighting terrorists during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
An Indian Police Service officer of the 1989 batch of the Maharashtra Cadre, Kamte also served as the Commissioner of Police of Solapur, as the Superintendent of Police of Sangli district from August 2002 to July 2004, as the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mumbai Police for the South Region's Zone 1 until...
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