From Maharashtra to Punjab and Kashmir, encounter killings have been used by politicians to deal with the underworld and terrorism, explains Shekhar Gupta in episode 708 of #CutTheClutter
Mumbai Police’s ex-chief has alleged Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh met arrested cop Sachin Waze in February and instructed him to collected Rs 100 crore a month from bars & eateries.
Speaking in Lok Sabha, Thakur noted the allegation that Deshmukh wanted police officers to collect Rs 100 crore per month, is a big allegation and matter of concern.
Julio Ribeiro says no one from the Maharashtra govt has contacted him about probing the allegations against home minister Anil Deshmukh, but says Sharad Pawar should conduct the probe since he is NCP chief.
Mumbai's ex-police commissioner Param Bir Singh purportedly wrote a letter to CM and governor, alleging Deshmukh asked cops to collect Rs 100 crore from bars.
Jayant Patil was speaking after party meeting at Sharad Pawar’s house in Delhi, held to discuss former Mumbai Police commissioner’s charges against NCP member Anil Deshmukh.
Home Minister Anil Deshmukh took to Twitter Saturday evening and said former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh was trying to 'save himself' in the Antilia bomb scare probe.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh Thursday said Singh was shifted to ensure that the probe into the Sachin Waze episode is conducted 'properly and without hindrance'.
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Encounter cops are not the problem, the problem is insidiously corrupt politicians. This government has lost the right to govern. I hope BJP can bring them down before their term.
1) What is stated in this article about Mumbai Police is not at all new. I have been hearing similar accounts from reliable grass root sources for the last six decades. The only difference then and now is that the amount changing hands has increased manifold. After all, there is something called inflation, which affects everybody – police, criminals and politicians.
2) What applies to Mumbai Police applies to all the police forces in this country.
3) Mr. Julio Ribeiro condemning encounter killings is amusing. When he took over as DGP of Punjab, he advocated “A bullet for bullet” in meetings with his senior officers and this was widely reported in the newspapers.
4) Mr. Gupta’s suggestion of bringing in officers of other cadres to clean up Mumbai Police is juvenile to put it mildly. What is the guarantee that officers of other cadres are not cut from the same cloth? After all, Mr Ribeiro was specially sent to Punjab to tackle militancy but he failed. Much later, a determined Sikh DGP – K. P. S. Gill – and a small band of his senior officers of the Punjab Cadre (mostly Sikhs) and a determined Constabulary (again predominantly Sikhs) took on the militants at grave peril to themselves and their families and saved Punjab for India by extension, Jammu & Kashmir as well.
IPS officers in the state cannot wait to complete their district assignments to get their first postings as DCP in Bombay. Then begin a lifelong romance with the city of dreams. CP is the ultimate prize, DGP a retirement home by comparison. Not sure how they would respond to a suggestion that officers from other cadres should come in and take over Crawford Market.
Why?
Encounter cops are not the problem, the problem is insidiously corrupt politicians. This government has lost the right to govern. I hope BJP can bring them down before their term.
1) What is stated in this article about Mumbai Police is not at all new. I have been hearing similar accounts from reliable grass root sources for the last six decades. The only difference then and now is that the amount changing hands has increased manifold. After all, there is something called inflation, which affects everybody – police, criminals and politicians.
2) What applies to Mumbai Police applies to all the police forces in this country.
3) Mr. Julio Ribeiro condemning encounter killings is amusing. When he took over as DGP of Punjab, he advocated “A bullet for bullet” in meetings with his senior officers and this was widely reported in the newspapers.
4) Mr. Gupta’s suggestion of bringing in officers of other cadres to clean up Mumbai Police is juvenile to put it mildly. What is the guarantee that officers of other cadres are not cut from the same cloth? After all, Mr Ribeiro was specially sent to Punjab to tackle militancy but he failed. Much later, a determined Sikh DGP – K. P. S. Gill – and a small band of his senior officers of the Punjab Cadre (mostly Sikhs) and a determined Constabulary (again predominantly Sikhs) took on the militants at grave peril to themselves and their families and saved Punjab for India by extension, Jammu & Kashmir as well.
IPS officers in the state cannot wait to complete their district assignments to get their first postings as DCP in Bombay. Then begin a lifelong romance with the city of dreams. CP is the ultimate prize, DGP a retirement home by comparison. Not sure how they would respond to a suggestion that officers from other cadres should come in and take over Crawford Market.