Sadhvi Pragya Thakur- who is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Bhopal on BJP ticket has landed in a controversy for saying that the Mumbai ATS chief, Hemant Karkare, was killed during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks because she had cursed him.

A complaint has been filed against Thakur for her controversial remarks on the 26/11 terror attack martyr.

Thakur had asserted that she had cursed Karkare that he will be destroyed completely and he passed away soon after that.
Thakur is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case and Karkare was investigating the case.