Tukaram Omble: Difference between revisions

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| birth_place  = Kedambe, [[Bombay State]], India

'''Tukaram Omble''' [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|AC]] ({{circa}} 1954 – 27 November 2008)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ashish Khetan|author2=Bachi Karkaria|author3=Chris Khetan|author4=George Koshy|author5=Harsh Joshi|author6=Julio Riberio|author7=Rahul Shivshankar|title=26/11 Mumbai Attacked|date=2009|publisher=Roli Books Private Limited|isbn=9789351940708|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HmEBwAAQBAJ|accessdate=16 March 2017}}</ref> was an Indian police officer and a former member of Indian army who served as an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the [[Mumbai Police]]. He was killed in action during the [[2008 Mumbai attacks]], at [[Girgaum Chowpatty]] in Mumbai. The Indian government posthumously honoured Omble on 26 January 2009 with the [[Ashoka Chakra Award|Ashoka Chakra]], the country's highest peacetime military award.<ref name="ashoka">{{cite news|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/11-security-personnel-to-get-ashok-chakra/83597-3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203074058/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/11-security-personnel-to-get-ashok-chakra/83597-3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-03|title=11 security personnel to get Ashok Chakra|accessdate=2009-01-25}}</ref>

[[File:Smt. Tarabai Ombale receiving Ashoka Chakra awarded to her husband Shri Tukaram Gopal Ombale (Posthumous) from the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, during the 60th Republic Day Parade-2009, in New Delhi.jpg|right|thumb|Omble's wife receives the Ashok Chakra from president Pratibha Patil on 26 January 2009.]]

Omble joined the Mumbai police as a constable in 1991 after retiring from the [[Indian Army]]'s Signal Corps as a [[Naik (military rank)|naik]]. He was an ASI in the Mumbai Police. On 26 November he and his team were guarding a checkpoint when they were approached by two attackers in a hijacked vehicle. After an initial shootout, one of the attackers died inside the vehicle. The other attacker, [[Ajmal Kasab]], exited the vehicle and feigned surrender. As an unarmed Omble approached him, Kasab got up and opened fire. Omble stood in front of him and held on to the barrel of Kasab's rifle, which prevented the bullets from injuring anyone else apart from Omble, who died due to this action. Kasab was later apprehended by the rest of Omble's team.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-26|title=Remembering Tukaram Omble, Policeman Who Took 40 Bullets From Kasab's Gun But Caught Him Alive|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/tukaram-omble-26-11-mumbai-terrorist-attack-501153.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=IndiaTimes|language=en-IN}}</ref>  

The Government of India later awarded Omble with the Ashoka Chakra in recognition of his actions in helping to apprehend Kasab.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/ashok-chakra-for-only-two-karkare-and-omble/413391 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-08-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305072319/http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/ashok-chakra-for-only-two-karkare-and-omble/413391 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>