Shadowy police
THE WEEK|April 04, 2021
The Mumbai Police controversy highlights the need for urgent reform to free the uniformed forces from political influence
NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA
Shadowy police

THE SPRAWLING PREMISES of the Mumbai commissionerate in Kalbadevi is largely quiet on a regular day. The Crime Branch teams would be in the field and senior officers would be engrossed in files on crime in the city. But, in the last few days, there has been a flurry of activity.

On March 19, for instance, the National Investigation Agency team led by Inspector General of Police Anil Shukla reached the commissionerate for a meeting with the new commissioner, Hemant Nagrale. NIA sleuths had already been there to collect evidence from the office of encounter specialist Sachin Vaze after the Union home ministry handed over the Antilia bomb scare case to the agency.

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