The committee members need not have worried: about 400 of the complex's residents braved the chill to spend the evening listening to Vandana Patne, brave policeman Tukaram Gopal Ombale's daughter, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar's brother Dilip, policeman Balasaheb Chandrakant Bhosale's son Sachin recall the circumstances that led to their death in the call of duty.
When Vandana was coaxed on to the stage and recall the evening when her father made history by arresting the terrorist Ajmal Kasab with just a lathi in hand and despite being pumped with AK 47 bullets, many had tears in their eyes.
"My father had just a lathi with him, why can't our police be given guns? Maybe he would have been alive," she said. Nafis Laljee, one of the organisers, said Vandana was teary-eyed all through the evening, remembering her father.
Image: RPF's Zillu Yadav with the children who put up the moving skit on the evening of December 31, 2008.
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