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2008-08-31 India-Pakistan

Mumbai: Top "encounter specialist" shown the door

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-31 08:30|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 charges of corruption, amassing illegal wealth and having links with the Dubai based D-Company mafia.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-31 08:33|| 2008-08-31 08:33|| Front Page Top

Posted by john frum 2008-08-31 08:34|| 2008-08-31 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Dubai is taking the lead on all sorts of economic endeavors, some of them pretty unsavory.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-31 08:35|| 2008-08-31 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Bombays Dirty Harry counts 103 kills in war on gangsters

Broad-shouldered and six-feet (1.83-metres) tall, Pradeep Sharma keeps a .38-calibre quick-action revolver within easy reach as he drives through the slums and bylanes of this seaside city in a jeep with dark-tinted windows. An AK-47 lurks in a squash bag on the back seat.

Zig-zagging through the bustling financial and entertainment capital for possible wanted gangsters he eyes a street toughie outside a teashop and notes the motorcycle that just pulled up next to him. In this game, no one is to be trusted.

Sharma, 42, is one of the famous five cops selected 15 years ago to put an end to daylight shootouts and street killings of businessmen and film dons.

Their brief was simple: fight fire with fire.

Sharma claims to have personally killed 103 gangsters of the total 350 police say have been gunned down in the past 10 years by the entire team. He says he and his colleagues swoop down the backstreets and dark alleys, chase gangsters and gun them down if they refuse to surrender.

Their critics say the gangsters are killed in cold-blood often driven to a lonely spot outside the city, told to run and then shot. Human rights activists breathe down their necks, saying that because these Dirty Harrys shoot first and ask questions later, theyre no better than the gangsters they kill.

But with unblinking conviction, Sharma denies any of his 103 hits were in cold-blood.

They fired at me. I fired in self-defence. They had weapons. Obviously they were not going to a temple, he says.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-31 08:35|| 2008-08-31 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 some of them pretty unsavory.

In Ahmed Rashid's new book he alleges that India is funding the Baloch insurgencies via RAW's Dubai operations

Posted by john frum 2008-08-31 08:37|| 2008-08-31 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Sharma, give Bobby Jindal a call. He may be looking for a good chief of police in New Orleans.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-31 08:41|| 2008-08-31 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 often driven to a lonely spot outside the city ~~at 2AM to look for a hidden arms cache~~, told to ~~attempt to escape from custody~~ run and then shot ~~by his own men in a crossfire~~.

Funny, that story sounds familiar. Wonder where I've heard it before?

Posted by Steve">Steve 2008-08-31 14:40|| 2008-08-31 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Y'know I've heard this story many times before, find/recruit a "TopCop" who then does his job so well that he's just gotta go.

Seems like the criminals really run the police dept. (Behind the scenes)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-08-31 18:31|| 2008-08-31 18:31|| Front Page Top

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