Pradeep Sharma: Encounter specialist’s brush with controversies.

KEY POINTS :

• Pradeep Sharma, who worked with the police for 25 years, has gunned down more than 100 underworld gangsters.
• Pradeep Sharma joined the Mumbai Police force on January 21, 1983, and was posted at Mahim Police Station.
• Pradeep Sharma, the former Mumbai Police officer and an “encounter specialist”, was explored by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Pradeep Sharma, the previous Mumbai Police officer and an “encounter specialist”, become on Thursday being searched by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) about the Antilia explosives scare case.

 A group of the NIA reached the Andheri house of Pradeep Sharma early on Thursday to hunt. Before this, Pradeep Sharma was wondered for hours using the federal employer in April.

Who is Pradeep Sharma?

Pradeep Sharma, who worked with Mumbai Police for 25 years, has gunned down greater than 100 underworld gangsters. Sharma joined the Mumbai Police pressure on January 21, 1983, and was posted at Mahim Police Station.

 Sharma changed into observed for his skill of amassing intelligence and transferred to the crime department to do away with the scary Mumbai underworld, which gained notoriety within the late Nineteen Eighties and 90s.

 He becomes involved in several gangsters, consisting of Parvez Siddiqui, Rafiq Dabbawala, Sadik Kalia and three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspects.

His fall

Sharma became, but, ousted from the police force for allegedly being in touch with the underworld and after his call cropped up in the faux stumble upon a case of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiyya in 2006. Pradeep Sharma, who has inspired many Bollywood movies, turned into brushed off from service in August 2008.

Sharma turned into arrested for his involvement in the case in 2010 but became acquitted of all costs via a Mumbai court in July 2013; however, 13 other policemen had been determined guilty. 

Vinayak Shinde, one of the policemen, has been arrested through NIA in connection with the Antilia explosives scare case.

The government invoked Section 311 of the Constitution towards him, following numerous months of departmental action, including departmental inquiries, suspension for extended durations, or even a switch to a faraway district in Maharashtra. Sharma refused to soak upbringing up fitness grounds.

The police officer challenged this, and his dismissal changed into revoked. Pradeep Sharma turned into reinstated in 2017 and became the head of the anti-extortion mobile of the Thane Police. Sharma arrested Iqbal Kaskar, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother, within a month of taking the fee.

Foray into politics

In 2019, amid speculation he’ll be part of politics simply earlier than the Maharashtra assembly elections, Pradeep Sharma resigned from the force. Still, he instructed HT he had no such plans and turned into resigning for personal motives. 

However, he contested from Nallasopra because the Shiv Sena candidate lost to Kshitij Thakur of the Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi by way of more than forty,000 votes.

In 2019, simply before the Maharashtra meeting elections, Pradeep Sharma resigned from the pressure and told HT he changed into resigning for non-public motives. He contested from Nallasopra as the Shiv Sena candidate lost to Kshitij Thakur of the Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi by more than forty,000 votes.