encounter specialists
Class of encounter specialists
MUMBAI, June 8/2009:
They are the ‘encounter specialists’ of the Mumbai Police from the class of ‘83 and their lives have even featured in Bollywood movies.
Senior Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma, who last week eliminated his 100th criminal in an encounter, is in fact from the 1983-batch, which had produced outstanding officers like Vijay Salaskar and Praful Bhosale.
Sharma, Salaskar and Bhosale are the trio who are the leading ‘encounter specialists’ of the commercial capital.
The three-some, who head separate Crime Branch-CID units now, have over the 10 years, gunned down more than 350 notorious criminals of various gangs and syndicates like that of Chhota Shakeel, Chhota Rajan, Amar Naik, Abu Salem, Ijaz Lakdawala and Hemant Poojari.
With an excellent information gathering network and dare-devil attitude, their teams had played a key role in gathering information about the spate of blasts in 2002-03 in which more than 80 persons were killed and 200 others injured. Their investigations led to the arrest of the main culprits.
While Sharma, who has earlier headed the Andheri Crime Intelligence Unit (AIU) and the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC), is now nos posted at the Kandivli Crime Branch-CID, his batchmates of the nashik police training academy — Salaskar and Bhosale head the Bandra and Ghatkopar units respectively.
The recent films on encounters that have got appreciable attention are ‘Encounter’, ‘Kagaar’ and ‘Aab Tak Chappan’.
In fact, through "Encounters" which are now known as "Police Operations", they and their key men like Police Inspector Daya Nayak and Sachin Vaze and other officers like Dilip Patil and Police Inspector Ravindranath Angre of Thane Anti-Extortion Cell, have wiped out the underworld from Mumbai and neighbouring thane district.
The first encounter in Mumbai took place in January 1982 when dacoit-turned-gangster Manya surve was killed at Wadala area. In the early nineties, former ACP A A Khan’s team killed kive gangsters including Maya Dolas in the Lokhandwala shoot-out.
In April 2003, Mumbai police added another feather to their caps when they took on terrorists. Three members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed in an encounter at Goregaon suburbs here by the team of Sharma. Daya Nayak, who had now been shifted to the Charkop Police station in the wake of allegations that he had links with underworld, was part of that team.
Vaze, another encounter specialist, who too was part of Sharma’s team was arrested in connection with a custody death. Though now on bail, he is currently under suspension following allegations that one of the accused in the recent blasts Khwaja Yunus died in his custody. Earlier it was claimed that the accused fled after the jeep in which he was being taken to Aurangabad met with an accident on the Ahmednagar highway.
Information gathering is their main forte and according to police sources, within minutes they can confirm which gang is involved in a shoot-out.
Salaskar shot into fame in 1997, when he killed Amar Naik in an encounter that virtually crippled the activities of the Arun Gawli gang.
Arun Gawli, who has never been convicted, had floated his political outfit, Akhil Bharatiya Sena (ABS), and even contested the Lok Sabha elections, but failed. In fact, Salaskar was deputed as a special officer at Mumbai south central on the day of elections to monitor the activities of the Gawli gang. A fearful Gawli did not even come out of his bastion Dagdi chawl to vote.
In fact, the names of Pradeep Sharma, Vijay Salaskar, Praful Bhosale, Daya Nayak, Sachin Vaze, Dilip Patil and others like Rajan Ghule, Rajan Pillai, Anant Kenjale and Arun Bourde Chill the spines of underworld elements. (UNI)
MUMBAI, June 8/2009:
They are the ‘encounter specialists’ of the Mumbai Police from the class of ‘83 and their lives have even featured in Bollywood movies.
Senior Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma, who last week eliminated his 100th criminal in an encounter, is in fact from the 1983-batch, which had produced outstanding officers like Vijay Salaskar and Praful Bhosale.
Sharma, Salaskar and Bhosale are the trio who are the leading ‘encounter specialists’ of the commercial capital.
The three-some, who head separate Crime Branch-CID units now, have over the 10 years, gunned down more than 350 notorious criminals of various gangs and syndicates like that of Chhota Shakeel, Chhota Rajan, Amar Naik, Abu Salem, Ijaz Lakdawala and Hemant Poojari.
With an excellent information gathering network and dare-devil attitude, their teams had played a key role in gathering information about the spate of blasts in 2002-03 in which more than 80 persons were killed and 200 others injured. Their investigations led to the arrest of the main culprits.
While Sharma, who has earlier headed the Andheri Crime Intelligence Unit (AIU) and the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC), is now nos posted at the Kandivli Crime Branch-CID, his batchmates of the nashik police training academy — Salaskar and Bhosale head the Bandra and Ghatkopar units respectively.
The recent films on encounters that have got appreciable attention are ‘Encounter’, ‘Kagaar’ and ‘Aab Tak Chappan’.
In fact, through "Encounters" which are now known as "Police Operations", they and their key men like Police Inspector Daya Nayak and Sachin Vaze and other officers like Dilip Patil and Police Inspector Ravindranath Angre of Thane Anti-Extortion Cell, have wiped out the underworld from Mumbai and neighbouring thane district.
The first encounter in Mumbai took place in January 1982 when dacoit-turned-gangster Manya surve was killed at Wadala area. In the early nineties, former ACP A A Khan’s team killed kive gangsters including Maya Dolas in the Lokhandwala shoot-out.
In April 2003, Mumbai police added another feather to their caps when they took on terrorists. Three members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed in an encounter at Goregaon suburbs here by the team of Sharma. Daya Nayak, who had now been shifted to the Charkop Police station in the wake of allegations that he had links with underworld, was part of that team.
Vaze, another encounter specialist, who too was part of Sharma’s team was arrested in connection with a custody death. Though now on bail, he is currently under suspension following allegations that one of the accused in the recent blasts Khwaja Yunus died in his custody. Earlier it was claimed that the accused fled after the jeep in which he was being taken to Aurangabad met with an accident on the Ahmednagar highway.
Information gathering is their main forte and according to police sources, within minutes they can confirm which gang is involved in a shoot-out.
Salaskar shot into fame in 1997, when he killed Amar Naik in an encounter that virtually crippled the activities of the Arun Gawli gang.
Arun Gawli, who has never been convicted, had floated his political outfit, Akhil Bharatiya Sena (ABS), and even contested the Lok Sabha elections, but failed. In fact, Salaskar was deputed as a special officer at Mumbai south central on the day of elections to monitor the activities of the Gawli gang. A fearful Gawli did not even come out of his bastion Dagdi chawl to vote.
In fact, the names of Pradeep Sharma, Vijay Salaskar, Praful Bhosale, Daya Nayak, Sachin Vaze, Dilip Patil and others like Rajan Ghule, Rajan Pillai, Anant Kenjale and Arun Bourde Chill the spines of underworld elements. (UNI)
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