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2006-08-23 India-Pakistan
Police in India kill suspect in Mumbai bombings case
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Posted by Fred 2006-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Let's see, early morning, recovered weapons, dead bossman, henchman wounded (!) and nary a good guy hit. And the pooleece fired 'in retaliation.' Sounds like somebody has been reading the RAB training manual.
Posted by USN,Ret 2006-08-23 00:30||   2006-08-23 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Works for me.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-08-23 00:57|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-08-23 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it too much to hope that one of these deaders will turn out to be a card-carrying ISI member? Pakistan needs its clock cleaned for its incessant meddling in India. Between domestic terror and fueling strife in Kashmir, Pakistan is really begging for it. Hell, for all the grief Pakistan causes just about everywhere, they really have it coming.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-23 05:18||   2006-08-23 05:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Police said that the suspected terrorist opened fire at the ATS team which had reached the scene and asked him to surrender

Translation.. the famed Mumbai encounter squad paid a visit.

And I have proof of my claim.. guess who was transferred to the Anti-Terrorist Squad right after the blasts?


Vijay Salaskar, the ‘encounter specialist’ of the Mumbai Police, has been transferred to the Anti-Terrorism Squad, which is investigating last week’s serial bomb blasts.

Officials hope that Salaskar’s skills as an investigator will come in handy for the case. Said Parambir Singh, who was Salaskar’s boss as the DCP, Zone-II and currently DIG(SRPF), “Salaskar is an excellent officer. Some of these earlier boys who were in the crime branch have their own informants and network and know the methods employed by the underworld. It’s a good sign.”

Both Singh and Salaskar are supposed to have been instrumental in breaking the backbone of Arun Gawli’s gang by eliminating some of his sharp-shooters. Salaskar also shot dead the dreaded gang lord Amar Naik. Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan’s gangs have also borne the brunt of his actions.
Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:03||   2006-08-23 07:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Officials hope that Salaskar’s skills as an investigator

Uh huh, 33 kills.. aboviously good investigative skills



Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:06||   2006-08-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#6  Encounter specialists are back in action
Mumbai, ians:
Time magazine has called them the “Dirty Harrys of Mumbai.” They have also inspired many Bollywood movies, thanks to their action-packed real-life scripts, laden with thrills and dangers.

The fabled, and sometimes notorious, sharpshooters of Mumbai Police — known euphemistically in local parlance as “encounter specialists” — are back in the news again.

Stung by the horrific July 11 Mumbai blasts, the police top brass have called in some of the encounter specialists, to add the much-needed teeth to its intelligence gathering machinery.

Mumbai Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), entrusted with the probe, is planning to draw heavily on the experience and expertise of the gunfight specialists and officers.

They include suspended police officers like Sachin Vaze; Daya Nayak, a sub-inspector, who gained notoriety as an “encounter specialist”, with alleged underworld connections; Vinod Bhatt, then assistant commissioner of police, who was part of the team that cracked the 1993 serial blasts case; Naval Bajaj, deputy commissioner of police; inspectors Vijay Salaskar and Pradeep Sharma.

Nayak, who hit headlines in the late 90s as a crack gunfight expert, after killing 83 gangsters in “encounters”, found himself arrested along with mentor Pradeep Sharma, and then suspended six months ago, charged with being in cahoots with the same underworld he had once pledged to annihilate.

He had even received threats from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence for his persistent attack on the underworld.

Thirty-seven year-old police inspector Vijay Salaskar, along with his then boss and deputy commissioner of police Parambir Singh were instrumental in breaking the backbone of underworld don-turned-politician Arun Gawli's gang by eliminating most of his sharpshooters.

Salaskar came into public eye after he killed the dreaded underworld don Amar Nayak in an encounter in central Mumbai in 1997.

Salaskar joined the force as a sub-inspector and rose to fame by killing Gawli's most ruthless sharpshooter, Bandya, who was allegedly the city's top extortionist.

After his fall from favour in 2005, Mr Salaskar was given charge of the city's Anti-Robbery Squad, but is now part of the elite group of sleuths probing the July 11 blasts.

Forty-four-year-old senior inspector, Predeep Sharma, with 107 “encounters” under his belt was the first Maharashtra police officer to have been featured on the cover of the Time magazine's international edition.

Sharma shot to fame after he killed two gangsters of the Dawood Ibrahim gang in 1990. He also shot dead three alleged LeT terrorists involved in the Mulund train blasts at Goregaon in 2003.Their individual investigation skills are exceptional, says their former boss.

“They have exceptional intelligence-gathering skills,” praised former Mumbai crime branch chief and now DIG, state reserve police force, Parambir Singh.

These former encounter experts with their well-oiled network of informants have become instrumental in piecing together vital nuggets of information in the blast probe according to ATS.
Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:08||   2006-08-23 07:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Gawd, they even recruited Sub Inspector Daya Nayak (85 kills). He is officially under charges of corruption and suspended from duty.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40248000/jpg/_40248615_dayanayakbody.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40248000/jpg/_40248633_dayabody2.jpg

"I am a Brahmin , a teetotaller and a vegetarian. I have no social evil, why should I kill people without a reason?"
Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:12||   2006-08-23 07:12|| Front Page Top

#8 


Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:15||   2006-08-23 07:15|| Front Page Top

#9 “They have exceptional intelligence-gathering skills,”

It helps when the guy in custody knows the cop will put a gun in his mouth, pull the trigger and walk away.

Not wanting to be another notch in Sub-Inspector Nayak's belt is a serious incentive to talk.

Looks like the Mumbai authories are not too interested in trials either, they just want the local threat exterminated.

Posted by john 2006-08-23 07:41||   2006-08-23 07:41|| Front Page Top

#10 He had even received threats from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence for his persistent attack on the underworld.
If the ISI doesn't like him, then he's Da Man!
Posted by Spot">Spot  2006-08-23 08:12||   2006-08-23 08:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Forty-four-year-old senior inspector, Predeep Sharma, with 107 “encounters” under his belt was the first Maharashtra police officer to have been featured on the cover of the Time magazine's international edition.

Beat that RAB !
107 kills and a TIME cover...


Posted by john 2006-08-23 15:10||   2006-08-23 15:10|| Front Page Top

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