To mark the 13th anniversary of the terror attacks in Mumbai, on November 26, 2008, tributes were paid to victims who laid down their lives fighting terrorists. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, and state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil paid their respects at the memorial at the police headquarters in South Mumbai. President Ram Nath Kovind while paying his tributes said that the nation will always be grateful for the bravery and sacrifice of the security forces. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also offered his prayers to the departed souls in the attack. Union Home Minister Amit Shah saluted the courage of the security personnel who fought the terrorists and made the supreme sacrifice.
The 2008 Mumbai attack was a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
Eight attacks took place in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Palace & Tower, the Leopold Cafe, the Cama Hospital, the Nariman House, the Metro Cinema, and in a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier’s College.
Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving attacker, disclosed that the attackers were members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, among others. Kasab was executed on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 a.m.
Hemant Karkare was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Kamte, and one of their officers were killed. The only survivor, Constable Arun Jadhav, was severely wounded.