India | Updated Nov 29, 2008 at 01:06am IST

Mumbai cop dies on day off

Mumbai: Wednesday, November 26 was Rajeev Khandekar's day off from work, the one time in the week he gets to spend time with his family.

However, when he heard the news of the attack on Mumbai, the 36-year old Mumbai police constable didn't think twice about rushing to work.

Khandekar was sent to the Cama Hospital, one of the sites where the terrorists had run amok.

Unfortunately, this assignment turned out to be his last mission.

Along with 3 other top policemen, Khandekar too fell to a terrorist's bullet.

Police constable Sunil Patil says, he was an honest man. We use to work together.

Khandekar had joined the police in 1992 after his father's death.

His mother, wife and 5-year-old daughter now face a bleak future.

They've lost their only caregiver and the country has lost a brave soldier.

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