The petition, filed by Radhakant Yadav, former MLA from Bihar, is based on a book written by ex-IPS officer S M Mushriff.
It has been claimed in the book that a conspiracy hatched by Hindu extremists had led to the death of Karkare during the attack. The petitioner has sought setting up of a special investigation team to probe this angle.
It claimed the Intelligence Bureau was aware of the impending November 26, 2008 attacks and Abhinav Bharat, with the connivance of IB, launched a "parallel operation" at Cama Hospital to kill Karkare.
"Karkare was deliberately sent to the spot" where he and others were ambushed, the petition claimed.
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Karkare was killed along with Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar in the ambush by Pakistani terrorists who targeted several of Mumbai's landmarks, including Cama Hospital, hotels Taj and Oberoi, and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus during the bloody siege that left 166 dead, including foreigners.
The petition argues that Pakistani terrorists Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail had not killed Karkare and others in his team and their names did not figure in the intercepts of telephonic conversation between other Pakistani terrorists (at Taj and Oberoi hotels) and their handlers in Karachi.