Soutik Biswas Published 26 November 2018 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The Mumbai terror attacks of 26 November 2008 left 166 people dead and soured ties between India and Pakistan. During the 60-hour siege, the gunmen also ambushed a group of policemen, including three of the city’s top officers travelling in a vehicle and killed six of them. The only surviving policeman, Arun Jadhav, tells the grisly story of his escape. The thick air inside the Toyota SUV stank of gunpowder and blood. In the cramped rear of the squad vehicle, head constable Arun Jadhav helplessly slid down his seat, blood oozing out of gunshot wounds on his right hand and left shoulder. Three constables, two dead and one barely breathing, had collapsed on top of him after being hit by a hail of gunfire from two men firing AK-47s. In the middle seat, the top policeman in charge of the city’s anti-terror unit had slammed against the window and died after being shot in the chest. And in the front, gunshots had sliced through an officer and an inspector. In the driver’s seat, a senior inspector with a formidable reputation for taking on the city’s gangsters,…