Click to play videoMumbai: Amidst Independence Day celebrations, the country also remembered one of its heroes of 26/11, late additional commissioner of Mumbai Police, Ashok Kamte.
A road was named after the braveheart in Saturday in South Mumbai, a place where he once lived.
"He was gallant, he was brave and his courage was beyond words," said Additional Commissioner, South Mumbai, Himanshu Rai while paying his tribute to Kamte.
"In front of him all of us pale. I don't think most of us could emulate him. He was a class apart. It was in his DNA," said Mumbai Police Commissioner D Sivanandan.
The Ashok Chakra awardee and martyr Ashok Kamte's contemporaries remember him with respect but fall short of words to describe his brilliance.
After the road was named in Kamte's memory his wife Vinita Kamte thanked the people of Mumbai.
Kamte laid down his life on November 26, 2008, fighting Ajmail Amir Kasab and Ismail Khan in the lane next to Cama Hospital.
A gold medallist in weightlifting, the multi-talented giant as people called him was perhaps the only man in Khaki to have had a massive fan following in all the places he served.
His acquaintances still remember his love for his uniform and his pride for the service and the nation too salutes its braveheart.
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