{"id":314993,"date":"2019-09-12T04:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314993"},"modified":"2019-09-12T04:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:17:13","slug":"super-cop-with-super-intention-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/super-cop-with-super-intention-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Super cop with super intention in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-314994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Pradeep-Sharma.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"464\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Maharashtra government accepted the resignation of&#8217; Super Cop&#8217; Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The political speculations are that Sharma would be joining the Shiv Sena soon.He would contest the upcoming assembly elections against Bahujan Vikas Aghadi MLA Kshitij Thakur son of Hitendra Thakur from Nallasopara .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma applied for voluntary retirement in July this year after 35 years of service He was heading the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Thane police. Sharma<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0has reportedly shot dead more than 100 criminals in &#8216;encounters&#8217; and got famous as an &#8216;encounter specialist&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Though the Home department accepted Sharma&#8217;s resignation on Monday and relevant orders have also been issued but Sharma will not be able to get retirement benefits like pension etc, till the Bombay High Court gives its verdict on a petition challenging Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) order in the Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya alleged fake encounter case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma was sacked by the state government from service in 2008 for his alleged links with Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim gang and his role in the encounter case. In 2013 Sharma was acquitted in the alleged fake encounter case by sessions court. Sharma was reinstated in police force in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after serving at the DG control room, Sharma was made senior police inspector of the AEC of Thane Police. He arrested Dawood\u2019s brother Iqbal Kaskar and busted an extortion racket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma joined the Mumbai police force in 1983. His first posting was at Mahim police station. Soon his skill of gathering intelligence through human resources was noticed by his senior&#8217;s and he was transferred to the crime branch to eliminate the dreaded Mumbai underworld, which had gained notoriety in the late 1980-90s. Sharma was involved in more than 100 encounters involving several gangsters, including Parvez Siddiqui, Rafiq Dabbawala, Sadik Kalia and three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government accepted the resignation of&#8217; Super Cop&#8217; Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma on Monday. The political speculations are that Sharma would be joining the Shiv Sena soon.He would contest the upcoming assembly elections against Bahujan Vikas Aghadi MLA Kshitij Thakur son of Hitendra Thakur from Nallasopara . Sharma applied for voluntary retirement in July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[4486,11794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314997,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314993\/revisions\/314997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}