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Documentary gives us the brief insight into the world of 90s Mumbai Mafia and police encounters to neutralize the organized crime syndicate ....
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00:00:00In the case of the crime, the club continues to stay in Mumbai.
00:00:23In the 1990s, the club continues to stay in Mumbai,
00:00:29the club continues to stay in the 1990s.
00:00:31And they were very violent.
00:00:59The murder, the rape, the rape, the house, the record, all the contact killers.
00:01:12One day after the war, they had to leave their home at once.
00:01:22Forcibly.
00:01:36And they had to leave their home.
00:01:39They had to fire them.
00:01:45The other one had to leave their home.
00:01:47And they hit the chopper.
00:01:49And they hit the constable.
00:01:52They hit the constable.
00:02:11I don't know what you're doing, you're declared dead.
00:02:18This was my first encounter.
00:02:55Who chases you for whom? You're chasing you.
00:02:58Pradeep Sharma, 104 encounters.
00:03:01We have to clean them from our society.
00:03:05Encounter specialists, heroes with Bollywood films centered around them.
00:03:13The dirty Harry's of Mumbai.
00:03:15There are criminals in uniform.
00:03:17Mumbai police's Pradeep Sharma is charged with kidnapping and killing in cold blood.
00:03:23I got 111 people.
00:03:25I got a reward for killing me.
00:03:26I got a reward for killing the people of Mumbai.
00:03:40I will not be from Mumbai.
00:03:43I was seeing here and everything would look like crazy.
00:03:49I have a fast life in Mumbai.
00:03:52There is a lot of difficulty in Mumbai,
00:03:54which is a lot of difficulty in Mumbai.
00:03:56It is because there is a lot of suffering here.
00:04:02Humidity.
00:04:04Of course, crime.
00:04:17When I joined the police,
00:04:20my father, he was not happy.
00:04:23He said,
00:04:24he would be a good life.
00:04:24He would be a professor, a scientist.
00:04:28I didn't get such an adventurous life.
00:04:31I didn't get into it.
00:04:34I didn't know that I was in Mumbai.
00:04:38I didn't have any friends,
00:04:41I didn't have any friends,
00:04:41I didn't have anything.
00:04:45I stayed in the police for 24 hours.
00:04:48I was in the bachelor's quarter.
00:04:50I was in the police.
00:04:52In my life, there is so much violence.
00:04:57It is a painful job.
00:04:58You have to do it.
00:05:00You have to do it.
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00:05:33Films based in Bombay, they always had gangsters and, you know, the bad guys, because we are
00:05:40the organized crime capital of the country.
00:05:46For the criminal, the city is absolutely perfect.
00:05:50Nobody is inquiring, nobody wants to know where you are coming from, where you are going.
00:05:56Nobody is fingering you in the city, they let you be.
00:06:01Organized crime really exploded in the 80s and especially in the 90s.
00:06:06That's when the rules change when common people were f***ing killed across the city here.
00:06:16Definitely this is an organized crime case because it's a serious incident.
00:06:20He's been shot, that's what we heard.
00:06:22I just heard it from his son.
00:06:23The state government has been criticized for not doing enough to control hits by the underworld.
00:06:28The gangsters were doing anything they wanted.
00:06:32They were getting away with it.
00:06:34It was fear.
00:06:37Real fear.
00:06:38They had become so strong that they were more powerful than the cops.
00:06:42It was a Thanks for the numbers, not the victims..
00:07:10…Where have you heard of this?
00:07:12I didn't have any power.
00:07:13I got murdered in jail.
00:07:17After three months, I shot.
00:07:19I didn't feel good, but I couldn't do it.
00:07:25One police officer said,
00:07:27I was out of question.
00:07:49The underworld was getting out of control.
00:07:53Police were running around like headless chickens.
00:07:58So that's when I decided,
00:08:00I'm going to get them.
00:08:12When I started studying the activities of the gangs,
00:08:16my main focus was on Daoud Ibrahim.
00:08:19He was a major don.
00:08:22Daoud had a gang called Tea Company.
00:08:27We have very few sources of knowing what Daoud is doing.
00:08:31So we started cultivating informants.
00:08:36One of my informants rang us up
00:08:39and said two of Daoud's gangsters
00:08:42were holding a businessman hostage,
00:08:45and they were armed.
00:08:50We came and apprehended them,
00:08:52and then we started interrogation.
00:08:57In interrogation, they gave us
00:08:59a tremendous amount of information
00:09:01about the activities of Daoud's gang.
00:09:04This organization was operating on a massive scale.
00:09:20The company is like a huge conglomerate.
00:09:24I would say at any given time,
00:09:27the company would add on its payroll
00:09:28more than 25,000 people.
00:09:33It's a big industry.
00:09:35It's got its hands in almost every pipe,
00:09:38from smuggling, gold, silver, electronics,
00:09:43drugs, bootlegging, gambling.
00:09:49Daoud was very powerful.
00:09:51He was like a king,
00:09:53and I wanted to make it big in Bombay.
00:09:56That was why I joined hands with the company.
00:10:03Daoud would call himself a businessman.
00:10:07But he got to the top,
00:10:09mainly because he eliminated all opposition to him.
00:10:18He would order a killing,
00:10:20but he would want it done with 10, 20 bullets being shot there,
00:10:24and then people would get scared of him.
00:10:27The fear factor is what he used to thrive on.
00:10:31Power flows from the nozzle of a gun, you can see.
00:10:40The big thing was extortion.
00:10:42Every week, the D company would take money
00:10:44from shopkeepers in the area.
00:10:47Everybody had to pay weekly rental
00:10:49so that business happens smoothly
00:10:51and nobody comes and busts up your shop.
00:10:55Anybody who's making money,
00:10:57whether you're a doctor or a film star or a builder,
00:11:01you had to pay money to them
00:11:03in order to survive and to stay alive.
00:11:05They were the unofficial mafia,
00:11:07and you had to pay.
00:11:11You didn't?
00:11:12Next week, boom, you're off.
00:11:13Kill.
00:11:16Daoud and his men were ruthless.
00:11:19They were extremely dangerous.
00:11:21So much of drug smuggling in India was the D company.
00:11:25Goal smuggling and prostitution,
00:11:27organized racket,
00:11:29cricket match corruption,
00:11:31even Bollywood.
00:11:34In the 90s,
00:11:35it was estimated 500 crores from the underworld
00:11:38was going into movies being produced.
00:11:41I mean, this is insane and true.
00:11:48D company not only had their fingers in various pies,
00:11:52they owned the fucking pie shop.
00:12:06that must be the same as the other kind of alien who killed him.
00:12:08They were the parents that said...
00:12:09Daoud, Daoud, Daoud...
00:12:10We have all of them know
00:12:11that...
00:12:12When they first started robb in 1974...
00:12:16They were of those days...
00:12:17They were of those days.
00:12:18They were of those days.
00:12:19But...
00:12:19When they were the young people,
00:12:21they were of them among their friends.
00:12:22There was no doubt about it.
00:12:23There was no doubt about it.
00:12:28There was no doubt about it.
00:12:34When they had cars,
00:12:36they would go to the taxi.
00:12:41One day, they had a national bar.
00:12:46They came to the ERP.
00:12:59There was no doubt about it.
00:13:01They had to kill him.
00:13:02They had to kill him.
00:13:07In that area,
00:13:09it was called Terror.
00:13:10It was called Terror.
00:13:30Those gangsters, get the SP.
00:13:33People would not come to the police.
00:13:35And it was going on unchecked.
00:13:40Decided that I've got to get these fellows.
00:13:43Come what may.
00:13:45At that time, I had about 32 police stations with me.
00:13:51I picked out officers,
00:13:53based on their reputation.
00:13:56I wanted officers who are physically fit.
00:13:58Who I felt had the guts enough
00:14:01to fight fire with fire.
00:14:07If you shoot a criminal,
00:14:10you are laying yourself open to criminal charges.
00:14:13You are laying yourself open
00:14:15to retaliation by
00:14:17the gang members.
00:14:19So, no one wanted to take the risk.
00:14:24But, I felt that going after those gangsters,
00:14:28would prove that the police are capable of taking action.
00:14:32And instilled a kind of fear
00:14:34in the underworld.
00:14:37One of the gangsters,
00:14:39that I was looking for,
00:14:41was Dilip Boa.
00:14:42He was, by far,
00:14:44the most fearless of those gang members.
00:14:50In Mumbai earlier,
00:14:52Dilip Boa,
00:14:53shot and killed a policeman.
00:15:03And he had literally kicked the dead body aside.
00:15:10So, he started searching.
00:15:13And one of my informants,
00:15:15he phoned.
00:15:16And he was very secretive.
00:15:18He talked only to me.
00:15:22There used to be the Sea Rock Hotel at the time.
00:15:27So, he parked in the car park,
00:15:28and he quietly came and sat in the back seat.
00:15:32He phoned me at the Dilip Boa.
00:15:34He had ganged up with May Dolors.
00:15:35A gangster,
00:15:36who had escaped from police custody.
00:15:39And they started extortion
00:15:41on a massive scale.
00:15:42But Dolors and Dilip Boa
00:15:45were notorious gangsters,
00:15:46who, between them,
00:15:47must have committed more than
00:15:4840 to 45 murders.
00:15:51My informant said,
00:15:53I know where these floors are.
00:15:57At present,
00:15:58they're eating and drinking
00:15:59in Lokhandwala.
00:16:01And they were armed.
00:16:07They were armed.
00:16:08Come quickly.
00:16:08Because the moment they've finished,
00:16:10they'll leave.
00:16:19I required 200 police officers
00:16:21to coordinate the area.
00:16:24We received information that
00:16:26some of the noted killers
00:16:28from Dao Debraheim gang,
00:16:29Dilip Boa,
00:16:31Maya Dolors,
00:16:32and several other henchmen,
00:16:34all armed with AK-47,
00:16:36and they were hiding in one Rajwani's plant,
00:16:38in this particular building.
00:16:44On November the 16th,
00:16:46Khan and his men carried out
00:16:47the biggest ever operation
00:16:49in the history of the Bombay police.
00:16:51Newstrak was there,
00:16:52on the spot,
00:16:53and covered the entire operation,
00:16:54bullet by bullet.
00:16:56Here is Minty Tejpal's exclusive,
00:16:58first-hand report of the Saturday afternoon shootout.
00:17:01Lokhandwala, Bombay.
00:17:02This is Minty Tejpal reporting for Newstrak.
00:17:04I was working with Newstrak.
00:17:06My beat was political,
00:17:09and terror,
00:17:10and threat like that.
00:17:11So all my stories were shootout,
00:17:13and blood, and all that, all that.
00:17:15At this point,
00:17:16I came to Bombay to do a soft story,
00:17:18and I was doing a feature on Pooja Bedi.
00:17:21And just around lunchtime,
00:17:23I noticed a buzz around the crew.
00:17:25You know, you get that feeling
00:17:27when there's something happening,
00:17:28and then, parallelly,
00:17:29I had been hearing too much siren noise,
00:17:31and you know what the fuck.
00:17:37And then I hear,
00:17:38over the phone,
00:17:39the unmistakable burst of an AK-47,
00:17:42which I know.
00:17:43I heard it in Punjab.
00:17:44I fired it with the army.
00:17:49Then I took a call right there and then,
00:17:52telling Pooja,
00:17:53look, I'm going to pack up,
00:17:54and I'm going to go and check out
00:17:55what the story is.
00:17:55Because you can't have an AK-47
00:17:57being fired in Bombay.
00:17:58A pistol, fine.
00:17:59AK-47 burst.
00:18:00I heard a burst over the phone.
00:18:01Gata gata gata gata.
00:18:02Gata gata gata gata.
00:18:02Gata gata gata gata.
00:18:02I was like,
00:18:03bloody hell,
00:18:03this is something.
00:18:06A taxi guy agreed for 500 rupees
00:18:08to drive me from Juhu to Lokanwala.
00:18:11I'm saying,
00:18:12chalo chalo chalo chalo.
00:18:12I'm screaming.
00:18:13Because I could,
00:18:14I could,
00:18:14I know there's something up.
00:18:19We take a left,
00:18:20and we're suddenly at this complex.
00:18:22I remember when we moved in, cops ran at us and told us, get out, get out, no price,
00:18:28it's dangerous.
00:18:36An operation in public where there are so many people around, the worst thing that can
00:18:42happen is innocent civilian is killed.
00:18:45The gangsters fired AK-47 randomly, without any control.
00:18:52Top of the building.
00:18:58The cops wouldn't let us go.
00:19:02So I circled around, completely like that, and got in here, right behind them.
00:19:07So suddenly I'm right under the building and I'm rolling.
00:19:10We're in the middle of the shootout.
00:19:15Khan's boy said, okay, you got here.
00:19:17You shouldn't even be here.
00:19:18So then they said, you don't move from this spot, boss.
00:19:19Otherwise you might get shot.
00:19:21As simple as that.
00:19:29Maya Dolas was a cocky fellow, very arrogant fellow.
00:19:34In fact, he was taunting the police that come and arrest us.
00:19:39Within one hour we'll get bail and we'll be out.
00:19:41So I said, all right.
00:19:43Now, no holds barred.
00:19:45Let's get there.
00:19:52But we were firing from two sides.
00:20:00This is in Lokadwala, you know, in a residential complex.
00:20:04Gangsters with AK-47s and a shootout with cops and broad daylight.
00:20:09It's crazy.
00:20:21How many people inside?
00:20:22Two, three, four, five people.
00:20:24Fuck, nobody knew now.
00:20:25Even the cops were guessing.
00:20:32Finally, at 5.15 in the evening, there was the last burst of time fire.
00:20:47As we went closer to the building, we saw one mangled body lying on the ground.
00:20:54In a four-hour long operation, there were 500 policemen.
00:20:581,400 rounds had been fired.
00:21:00There were seven gangsters who were dead.
00:21:02Maya Dolas and Dilapua and five more.
00:21:06No human being likes to kill another human being.
00:21:10It goes against everything that you have been taught from childhood.
00:21:15Respect for human life.
00:21:17But then, persons I shot.
00:21:21They not only shot innocent people, they shot policemen.
00:21:26One group was headed by me, which entered from the door.
00:21:30And I was carrying a gun.
00:21:34It was already caught.
00:21:37I said, don't move and surrender yourself.
00:21:41By the time the warning finishes, Dilapua, he immediately caught up and shot at me.
00:21:50If I come across a criminal, and the criminal has got a gun.
00:21:55If he doesn't put down the gun, I'm going to shoot him.
00:21:58This is actually a must for a policeman.
00:22:01If he wants to live himself.
00:22:09We got a tremendous amount of publicity.
00:22:13It was the first time something like that had been seen on TV.
00:22:19What that shootout did was show people, the citizens, that the cops could fight back.
00:22:27It certainly boosted the cops' profile.
00:22:30I mean, everybody likes to see gangsters getting killed.
00:22:32This kind of situation became known as an encounter.
00:23:06It's a moral responsibility of a police officer.
00:23:06It was a good thing.
00:23:07It was great, it was a great image.
00:23:08The police was getting bigger.
00:23:09It was a good idea of doing something.
00:23:11It would be a good idea of going out and doing something good.
00:23:14We will give justice to the people.
00:23:22The gangsters are behind the gangsters.
00:23:26It's a moral responsibility of a police officer.
00:23:30The first time you have a revolver,
00:23:33there was a lot of excitement.
00:23:36There was a lot of excitement.
00:23:54I will transfer to Crime Lodge in 1992.
00:24:00Then I went to Crime Lodge,
00:24:02and then I went to Crime Lodge.
00:24:12In Mumbai, there was one person in every job.
00:24:17There was a shoot-out.
00:24:18Then I said, sir,
00:24:20there was a shoot-out.
00:24:22I would say,
00:24:22I would say,
00:24:23I would say,
00:24:25I would say,
00:24:29If anyone comes to me,
00:24:31we would have to come from the books.
00:24:33We would have to come from him.
00:24:35Government failed to put it in the door.
00:24:38They had to pay for the commission and
00:24:38to put it in the door.
00:24:40They had to take it to the policy,
00:24:41and to do it in the public.
00:24:45In other words,
00:24:46there were many operations.
00:25:01I was a growing crime journalist in those days.
00:25:04Me and my other reporter friends like me supported the cops.
00:25:08People who started doing encounters.
00:25:12I felt that the gangsters had no fear of law.
00:25:16The only language that they understood was bullet for a bullet.
00:25:27When I went to meet Pradeep Sharman, he was very wary of me.
00:25:31He was not even willing to talk to me.
00:25:33My work was not my agenda.
00:25:35I don't want to do anything against them.
00:25:38I'm just looking for page one.
00:25:46Then they started talking to me.
00:25:51Pradeep Sharman has developed insensitivity.
00:25:55There's no wrong thing for them.
00:25:58The first time, it was a different experience.
00:26:03The first encounter was Pradeep Sharman's first encounter,
00:26:06where they called out of compassion,
00:26:11or two people who called a woman,
00:26:13who had been punished by her house,
00:26:15she was not very sure that she was right or wrong.
00:26:18and went to a person.
00:26:24The first encounter was Pradeep Sharman's first encounter.
00:26:28I couldn't get drunk with him.
00:26:33When he was with an enemy,
00:26:35I couldn't get drunk with him.
00:26:40After that, he could have been done at an end.
00:26:46He could be too good planned for the first encounter.
00:26:48But I could have been forced to take his force out of his home.
00:26:48What did I do?
00:26:51You understand an accent?
00:26:54I accepted it.
00:27:05I am from a Brahmin family.
00:27:08I am from a moderate family.
00:27:10We have taught this to be a good person.
00:27:15It is a good person.
00:27:17It is a good person.
00:27:17It is a good person.
00:27:19It is not a good person.
00:27:21It is a good person.
00:27:26No one wants to kill any police officer.
00:27:33If you have taken a job, do it.
00:27:47I feel very conflicted when I am gangsters.
00:27:51Many are remorseless.
00:27:53Many think of killing as a sport.
00:27:55But there are many others who go drunk when they have to kill
00:27:59because they cannot bear the stench of blood, the sight of blood.
00:28:03And eventually there is remorse.
00:28:05There is regret.
00:28:08But the underworld has a very meticulous way of recruiting foot soldiers.
00:28:14You know, it is like brainwashing.
00:28:17They have these scouts who are there on every street corner.
00:28:24They target boys who come from poor families but aspire to a good life.
00:28:30There are school dropouts and college dropouts.
00:28:34These people are low on self-confidence.
00:28:36So what the scout will do is, he will give a small job to the potential recruit.
00:28:40Then he will praise the recruit so that it builds self-confidence.
00:28:44He feels appreciated.
00:28:47In the underworld, they call each other bhai, which means brother.
00:28:51It creates a sense of camaraderie.
00:28:53It creates a sense of belonging.
00:28:55Which is also missing from these people's life.
00:29:00It's done so brilliantly, the recruitment.
00:29:05There's a reason why it's called organised crime.
00:29:20One of them was caught in the front of them,
00:29:22and it doesn't happen when the gangsters are up.
00:29:23Every man joined.
00:29:25Every man.
00:29:26Every man.
00:29:27The one who looked out of gangster...
00:29:29I knew when we were not there.
00:29:32They would have been killing it anyway.
00:29:40And the, as of the police,
00:29:41I told them.
00:29:42And the supporters of the police led to the police.
00:29:42Which I had to make my supporters among the police?
00:29:43What is the love and what is the crime?
00:29:45Everything mixed.
00:29:48After that, people felt like this.
00:29:50It was a reaction to action.
00:29:54What is the meaning?
00:29:55That they don't leave anything.
00:29:59But this is not going to go from Dubai.
00:30:20Doing business was much better from Dubai.
00:30:24His main business was gold.
00:30:26We used to buy in tons.
00:30:29And he had a very good network of smuggling gold from Dubai to India.
00:30:34There used to be a profit margin of 25%.
00:30:43From time to time, I would see him.
00:30:50Meeting him was a big deal.
00:30:54Like any Tom, Dick and Harry wouldn't have access to him.
00:31:04We didn't care about the encounter cops initially,
00:31:07because he was safe.
00:31:10His most trusted detenants were safe.
00:31:14It was only the foot soldiers who were being killed.
00:31:17He had to pay them money every month.
00:31:21And if they were killed, probably it saved him his money.
00:31:28But after the riots of 1992 and the police reaction,
00:31:34then his attitude changed.
00:31:49The violence swept India throughout the day.
00:31:53Stonings, bus burnings, attacks on police stations all across the country.
00:32:02I covered the riots.
00:32:05They were scary.
00:32:06They were frightening.
00:32:08And you saw what humanity is really capable of.
00:32:12We humans have so much evil and poison in us.
00:32:15It's unbelievable.
00:32:18There are certain incidents that poison comes out en masse.
00:32:25It started in the town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh,
00:32:28where a Muslim mosque was razed to the ground.
00:32:35After that, Hindus and Muslims all over the country started fighting.
00:32:42It was violent.
00:32:44It was very bloody and very violent.
00:32:47There were neighbours turning against neighbours.
00:32:51You suspected everybody.
00:32:55Can the police be trusted?
00:33:23The 92-93 riots, it was just chaos.
00:33:27Bombay was the worst hit.
00:33:29Around 900 people died.
00:33:32Many of these deaths were blamed on the police.
00:33:36They were accused of being heavy-handed,
00:33:40of using fire for fire against regular citizens.
00:33:54These kind of activities by the police.
00:33:57And mind you, there were just a handful of them.
00:34:01Again, widened the gap between the police and the public.
00:34:04The public started being suspicious of the police.
00:34:18The police had a little bit.
00:34:22If the police didn't happen at that time,
00:34:25the riots were a lot bigger.
00:34:29The police had a lot of trouble.
00:34:32The police had a lot of trouble.
00:34:46In the past, Underworld had stayed out.
00:34:50But Ta'ud was a Muslim.
00:34:53And people were saying,
00:34:54you're such a big boy, staying in Dubai.
00:34:57People used to call him up,
00:34:59saying that your community people,
00:35:02Your friends they are being bumped off here and you can do nothing about it and you should have some
00:35:07revenge
00:35:10Why don't you strike back I
00:35:15Believe the company supplied weapons to some writers the result took the entire city by storm
00:35:25The rights control ke baar ho gya to I said was well together
00:35:32The general public is not so much interest in the public
00:35:36Anti-national elements
00:35:39Those people are doing the wrong thing
00:35:43So is there many d-compties and gangsters who are standing in the right?
00:35:50100% rights have increased
00:35:51To create panic
00:36:02During the Covenant riots, we found a number of Daoud's criminals transporting arms.
00:36:09But Daoud was multi-headed hydra.
00:36:13You cut off one head, the others were always there.
00:36:18We wanted to crack down on a bigger scale.
00:36:48We used to call him Shrikant Mama.
00:36:51He was one of the top people in the company.
00:36:56He was not into the actual killing of someone.
00:36:59Shrikant used to control the smuggling routes from the airport, air cargo basically.
00:37:06And they made huge money out of that.
00:37:14Shrikant Mama, he was strong and powerful.
00:37:20He was the top ten in the 90s.
00:37:22He was one of them.
00:37:28So I was my friend, Rujay Salazkar.
00:37:32We were sitting in the police station.
00:37:37A informant's phone came.
00:37:40Shrikant was the only person that came.
00:37:42This is my police station.
00:37:47So I was my team.
00:37:49I got it.
00:38:06My team was a Presentation.
00:38:26We both had to neutralize it.
00:38:32As soon as it came to death, it was like a pin drop of silence.
00:38:48Shri Kang, after his death, tea company, air cargo section collapsed literally.
00:38:55Ta'ud was affected and he was full of anger for this and for the Muslims.
00:39:01He was killed in the riots. He wanted to send out a message but the scale and the magnitude of
00:39:08it catapulted him to a different league altogether.
00:39:21A few minutes before trading was to end at the Bombay Stock Exchange.
00:39:24The Bombay Stock Exchange
00:39:25The Bombay Stock Exchange
00:39:54The bombs devastated Bombay Stock Exchange.
00:39:58The explosive device placed in a car in the basement parking area claimed at least 70 lives.
00:40:05That time I was sitting in Bombay crime branch.
00:40:09After a little while, the rest of the sport came out.
00:40:15A powerful car bomb went up at a bus stop opposite Century Bazaar shopping centre.
00:40:20Other targets included banks and hotels.
00:40:24In total, 12 bombs were detonated around the city.
00:40:28They were mainly placed in cars.
00:40:30The deadliest terror attack India has ever seen.
00:40:34The police were tense.
00:40:37They said, what's going on?
00:40:39The city was taken by 12 mob blasts.
00:40:44Blast in 1993.
00:40:47It was a serious crime.
00:40:54The main city centre hospital is packed.
00:40:57The scene here, one of utter chaos.
00:41:00The number killed is currently put at over 250.
00:41:03But it's feared that this death toll could rise even higher.
00:41:09It was scary.
00:41:11I mean, for us, I think it was a 9-11 equivalent.
00:41:15The discovery of these grenades was the first major breakthrough for the police.
00:41:19The main suspects, known gangsters, have fledged to Dubai, leaving a trail of evidence.
00:41:24Davut Ibrahim was accused of their bomb blast.
00:41:27Incidents that started on December 6th in Ayodhya
00:41:32exploded into this just incredible act of terrorism.
00:41:39I think the attack was against the very existence and soul of this country.
00:41:43The prime minister, Mr. Rao, said the target had been India's economic heart.
00:41:50Initially, it was disbelief.
00:41:51But then later, as we saw the evidence coming up, it was horrific.
00:41:57I had nothing to do with the bomb blasts.
00:41:59Not many secrets are kept within the tea company.
00:42:03But this, I would say, was one of the best kept secrets.
00:42:06The arrests made by the police threw the spotlight on Bombay's underworld mafia.
00:42:22They would like instability and disorder to prevail so that they can carry on their nefarious activities.
00:42:35There are doubts in this.
00:42:38There are so many terrorists.
00:42:42There are so many terrorists.
00:42:55There are so many terrorists.
00:42:55People are out.
00:42:56And sharing space with the world's most influential leaders is the underworld, Don,
00:42:59and India's most wanted criminal, Dawud Ibrahim,
00:43:02described as the boss of the Mumbai organized crime syndicate, the D Company.
00:43:12When the war was 1993 then, it was a label, new terrorists.
00:43:18He turned out terror.
00:43:19Now, we didn't know what the before will be made of the war.
00:43:28We never had a plan regarding the war.
00:43:30We understand that the war will happen in 1993, and we will bomb blast.
00:43:33I don't know what to do.
00:43:35I don't know what to do.
00:43:36It's coming, it's coming.
00:43:53After the bomb blast,
00:43:57we started our inquiry.
00:43:58We knew that the bomb blast was planned in Dubai.
00:44:15The entire route, the consignment landing,
00:44:19the bomb blast also landed.
00:44:21The RDS landed.
00:44:25The whole government had increased.
00:44:28The police had increased.
00:44:30It was a war against the state.
00:44:32It was a war against the state.
00:44:37The bosses of the department,
00:44:39the bosses of the department,
00:44:40the bosses of the department,
00:44:40they pressure them.
00:44:58And they were given cut blanch,
00:45:02an unlimited power.
00:45:04Police commissioner, R.D. Diyagi,
00:45:06said, I want encounters.
00:45:34R.D. Diyagi,
00:45:36was very angry.
00:45:37He said,
00:45:38I know as a commissioner,
00:45:40how I can do this.
00:45:42You don't teach your father how to fuck.
00:45:50The Mumbai bomb blast changed everything, you know.
00:45:55The public outcry was so deafening.
00:45:59It was open season.
00:46:01It was like the killing fields opened.
00:46:03Boom, go for it.
00:46:04The Mumbai police have begun an intensive search.
00:46:06Police are now out to stop the gang activity
00:46:09any way they can.
00:46:19The police aren't shy about their tactics.
00:46:22Shoot first, ask questions later.
00:46:29The bombay police have shot dead more than 40 alleged gangsters
00:46:34in the last two months alone.
00:46:36The encounters court had a sort of official sanction.
00:46:39Everybody wanted Daoud's blood
00:46:41and they were more motivated than ever
00:46:42to go after his gangsters.
00:46:45I was like, wow, something's finally happening.
00:46:59We asked them to surrender,
00:47:01but instead of surrendering themselves,
00:47:04they started firing on the police.
00:47:06When somebody's firing towards you,
00:47:08you don't have time to think about whether you're firing
00:47:10towards his hand or rake.
00:47:12We have been taught like that,
00:47:13the firing should be effective.
00:47:15Police gunned down three gangsters right here
00:47:17in Bombay's central business district.
00:47:31They're Mumbai's encounter specialists,
00:47:33sharpshooters in police uniform.
00:47:40I shot down 16 hardcore criminals.
00:47:43I shot down 16 hardcore criminals.
00:47:45I encountered four people in one day.
00:47:57After 93, scores were created
00:47:59and they were given unfettered powers.
00:48:06I had actually objected to the senior officers.
00:48:10I said that we couldn't shoot a criminal
00:48:13on our own women's fantasy.
00:48:17The aim of every policeman
00:48:19is initially to arrest a person
00:48:22and bring him to justice.
00:48:23And these kind of wanton killings
00:48:25left a bad taste in the mouth.
00:48:28I said I don't want to continue.
00:48:31And I decided to take voluntary retirement.
00:48:39I don't want to take all of them.
00:48:40I think that it's true.
00:48:41I'm not sure I should take any resigns.
00:48:44But some of them had got hurt,
00:48:46and I resigned.
00:48:49So they just had to resign.
00:48:50A big big officer.
00:48:55The people, the superiors who were at that time, had something happened, so they had to go out.
00:49:05When I was in the war, in 18 years, we had this encounter in 22 states.
00:49:11There was a press, TV, human rights, court, politicians and bureaucrats.
00:49:24Nobody objected.
00:49:38I hadn't even been in India for a few months when I began reading about this.
00:49:45And that phrase, encounter cops, took me ages to work that out.
00:49:49I was like, what is an encounter cop? They're having a lot of meetings?
00:49:57I remember the papers kept score of their tallies.
00:50:03Rabindra Angri, 52 encounters. Vijay Saraskar, 48 encounters.
00:50:08This guy's got 42, this guy's got 58.
00:50:1285 encounters. 83 encounters.
00:50:15What was the odd thing about it was, the gangsters would always be armed with an AK-47, and the
00:50:23cops would always have a pistol.
00:50:25But somehow, the cops were never hurt.
00:50:29You know, how does one guy shoot 87 people without getting a scratch?
00:50:37This sounded quite curious to me.
00:50:42The other intriguing part was how it was portrayed.
00:50:46They had laudatory coverage in the papers. There's something way off here.
00:50:54Encounter specialists who have come to be near-mythological heroes with Bollywood films centered around them.
00:51:00How many people killed?
00:51:02How many people killed?
00:51:03You know, tell me.
00:51:04How many people killed?
00:51:05How many people killed?
00:51:06How many people killed?
00:51:07How many people killed?
00:51:08How many people killed?
00:51:09These guys become kind of rock stars.
00:51:13They were celebrities. They were stopped in the street. And they hung out with celebrities.
00:51:17I think it was interesting.
00:51:19They were coming news, on TV.
00:51:24They were talking about the first gun in the West.
00:51:30And then, they became heroes, they became heroes, they became heroes, they became media, everything started.
00:51:37What's our fault?
00:51:41Pradeep Sharma, I said that a 96, 97 was down to earth.
00:51:45Pradeep Sharma, an inspector with Bombay police?
00:51:47Yeah, I am.
00:51:48But then, they keep ego.
00:51:49You know, people say that you're a super star.
00:51:52You've become more than a film.
00:51:53I like him.
00:51:57They like that time. They want to be the man of the hour.
00:52:01We don't get caught. We don't get caught.
00:52:03We don't get caught.
00:52:04There are stringent laws.
00:52:06If they get arrested, they won't come out for eight to ten years.
00:52:10That's why we don't get caught.
00:52:13We don't get caught.
00:52:15We retaliate.
00:52:17Pradeep Sharma, he was hungry for going after criminals and killing them in encounters.
00:52:28When these people encountered them, I was going on the spot.
00:52:31Empty stories cut and then click.
00:52:33Now, I used to get close to them and speak to them.
00:52:37If you become a good listener, if you tap that thing in them, just because you have given them time
00:52:44to talk,
00:52:45you will see how you feel about the story, how you feel about your feelings, how you feel about your
00:52:50minds, and how you ship your prayers,
00:52:51you will share your story.
00:52:52Which becomes your Page 1 story.
00:52:56They were in competition with each other, trying to score the biggest number of hits.
00:53:01I have killed 80, I have killed 9, I have killed 100, it's going to go to the head.
00:53:07It looked like that was the only accomplishment that they were very proud of.
00:53:12At last count Pradeep, you had 92, a score of 92 and you 78, isn't it, or something like
00:53:20that.
00:53:21So it's like Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag or Yubraj or Kev partnership.
00:53:26So who chases after whom?
00:53:28You are chasing after him.
00:53:29We are working together.
00:53:31Working together.
00:53:32But you know, merely going around killing criminals, for the sake of building up a record, of saying
00:53:40yes, I have accounted for so many encountered deaths, that is, I would call it reprehensible.
00:53:52During the late 90s, Mumbai looked like a war zone.
00:53:57But the encounter squad was not pulled up.
00:54:01somehow everybody saw it as legitimate.
00:54:04And I think it is justified completely.
00:54:06Extraordinary situations called for extraordinary measures, which is the main thing that is happening.
00:54:12But then gradually human rights activists started questioning the culture.
00:54:16I am questioning the police about this quick disposal.
00:54:21I'd rather see him found guilty in a court of law.
00:54:23By 2003, encounters had killed about 1,200 gangsters.
00:54:29When you say that the 93 blast was the biggest carnage Mumbai has seen,
00:54:341,200 gangsters is, I think, five times the casualties we had in the 93 blast.
00:54:39Of course, these were criminals and I do not justify their actions.
00:54:42But these were men who had families.
00:54:44These were men who had wives, who had children, who had mothers, who had fathers,
00:54:49who probably had a chance at reformation.
00:54:54Then the term fake encounter entered the public discourse.
00:54:58That encounters could have been staged.
00:55:06There was a series of snarring doors.
00:55:09That officers picked up criminals from their homes.
00:55:12And they took them elsewhere, interrogated and shot them.
00:55:16In Mumbai police's wanted list number one,
00:55:19Sada Mama Pavle, today, the last police.
00:55:22He was attacked by the police.
00:55:23He was attacked by the party.
00:55:23He was attacked by the two spots.
00:55:28These are all media creation.
00:55:30They understand each other.
00:55:33Who is fake? Who is the man?
00:55:41I have 54 encounters.
00:55:44My one encounter is no one.
00:55:49My one is clean encounters.
00:55:51All of them.
00:55:55Why are you blaming the police?
00:55:57The work is done.
00:56:10Living in the city became much more dangerous.
00:56:14stories were around that some of my friends were picked up from somewhere and then they were shot
00:56:21people are saying you are being targeted you are a name so you will also be a victim of some
00:56:28encounter a managed encounter yes I was shocked but people told me yes now it's more proactive
00:56:43force I did fear Pradip Sharma I had some credible intelligence he was trying to confirm yet a lot of
00:56:54informers from the underworld probably to avoid being encountered themselves they would say okay
00:57:01please don't kill us I will give you information I made up my mind that I want to step out
00:57:09of this
00:57:09it's not worth what I am risking I felt probably it would be much safer for me to be out
00:57:23of the city
00:57:26so November of 2003 early morning around five o'clock at road to Goa
00:57:38I was verified am I being followed are my phones being tapped I do not know probably at the next
00:57:49check post someone might be waiting for me to bump me out
00:58:15it's a point thirty-eight I always use against the criminal
00:58:41most of the top run of the company they fled
00:58:51it was all about securing your own life I took a fake name I had absolutely no contact with anybody
00:59:04my family members to my brother my father everyone
00:59:10so I was quite lonely I would stay close to 10 years incognito trying to evade being made a target
00:59:18of some encounter
00:59:24the shootout happened near the Devanar crematorium in northeast Mumbai early this morning
00:59:29nearly 60 alleged gangsters have been killed in similar encounters with the Mumbai police in the last eight months
00:59:39the effect on organized crime in Bombay was massive
00:59:45there had been you know two shootings a week on the streets by the gangsters but by the early 2000s
00:59:53get fallen to sort of two a month so encounter cops had a massive impact
00:59:59and I just remember thinking well I need to meet one of these guys
01:00:08I didn't have a sort of extensive contacts list at that stage but I began asking around
01:00:14and there was one particular journalist in Bombay called Hussain Zaidi who was a crime reporter
01:00:20who knew everybody you know he had all these guys on speed up and he was very fascinated with these
01:00:28encounter cops he says that we have not seen these kind of cops except for in movies like dirty Harry
01:00:43he was India's leading encounter cop in fact he was coming up to make his century
01:00:54you know it's one of those things where you're going into an interview and you want to try and
01:00:59couch your questions and be quite careful tread quite carefully and let someone almost lead you
01:01:05to a place rather than sort of confront them and I didn't have to do anything of that
01:01:15it was extraordinary
01:01:18I'm interviewing Pradeep and in the room next door there were a couple of guys chains up
01:01:25who were being beaten senseless you know they may kill these two guys
01:01:29I just kept my mouth shut and just observed this
01:01:38no one wrote these cops are killing people executing people on the streets no one wrote that
01:01:45so I think I was half expecting to find out that there was some explanation
01:01:51but it was definitely only when I got there that I realized oh right they're just whacking these guys
01:01:58and making no bones about it and telling me that actually
01:02:27naturally they are
01:02:32We have to clean them from our society.
01:02:35We met a few times and he was open, he was candid.
01:02:42Everybody knows this is going on. Everybody agrees with it.
01:02:45So who's going to complain?
01:02:47And I used to look at him sometimes and wonder whether,
01:02:50do you realize that there is a day of reckoning?
01:02:55You know, he was obviously enjoying the character that he was.
01:02:59He thought he was being a service to his community.
01:03:03And I think these guys all thought that they had impunity.
01:03:12And I also knew that in that time,
01:03:13when I was in 2013,
01:03:16I didn't have any value in my life.
01:03:17I didn't have any value in my life.
01:03:21After we shoot some mobster,
01:03:23his victims look at me like God.
01:03:25Criminals are filth and I'm the cleaner.
01:03:28It feels like a kind of Icarus arc, right?
01:03:31You know, they flew too high.
01:03:33It was bound to be some kind of blowback.
01:03:38Pradeep Sharma is the first encounter specialist
01:03:40to have been removed from active duty.
01:03:42Pradeep Sharma, the first senior encounter man to be removed.
01:03:45He was arrested late last night along with five others
01:03:48for the fake encounter of an alleged gangster
01:03:50in Mumbai's Andheri area.
01:03:52He didn't give them.
01:03:53It was good.
01:03:55I had to have to ask and go in a deal.
01:03:59When you do the work,
01:04:00everyone will be very happy.
01:04:01What did it happen after me?
01:04:02What do you enjoy?
01:04:32many policemen see this at the end of an era when the time article came out
01:04:38things went downhill not just for Pradeep Sharma but for other cops now
01:04:44everybody started scrutinizing the actions of the encounter specialist I
01:04:49think they're criminals in uniform you do think that criminals in uniform
01:04:53because anybody who has been given so much freedom to kill people who would
01:05:00save cases that have filed up against Mumbai's high-profile encounter
01:05:06specialists they came a point where there were many allegations of corruption
01:05:10builder Ganesh Vaag alleged that his life was under threat from another encounter
01:05:14specialist Ravindra angry extortion car up lagata
01:05:45angry is not the only one to fall from grace such invasions
01:05:49arrested for the custodial death of Khaja Yunis
01:05:52proper both slay currently under suspicion editor at the editorial
01:05:56me now on a matthew news name madam bulta front page news at the there was the
01:06:01pride of the Mumbai police they're not cops who showed that certain
01:06:06encounters and struck fear in the heart of the underworld
01:06:09the
01:06:10I will take it to the
01:06:15the
01:06:16the
01:06:17the
01:06:22the
01:06:24It's true. It's true.
01:06:27It's true.
01:06:27It's true.
01:06:28What are you feeling?
01:06:29How many people are here?
01:06:32112 people killed after killing me.
01:06:48I personally think that killing, causing death of others,
01:06:53it is detestable.
01:06:55As policemen, I think we should desist from doing that.
01:07:01These are totally avoidable in human practices.
01:07:04So it was just a matter of time that there was resistance towards police doing this.
01:07:12By this time, the top leaders of the D Company were all sitting outside India.
01:07:19I had been picked up for deportation to Ministry of External Affairs.
01:07:24I was handling investigations abroad and extraditions.
01:07:31Abu Salim was a big shot member of the Daoud gang.
01:07:35He was involved in extortion.
01:07:37Among the Hollywood industry, there were around 50-odd cases throughout the country against him.
01:07:42Including his involvement in the murder of Gulshan Kumar.
01:07:46Gulshan Kumar was a multi-millionaire.
01:07:49To Indians, Gulshan Kumar was almost a legend.
01:07:51With the fortune he made on Hindi film music, he built this temple near his home.
01:07:55Gulshan Kumar was accosted by gunmen and shot at from point-blank range while coming out of a temple.
01:08:01Abu Salim was wanted for a Gulshan Kumar murder case.
01:08:05And he was wanted for the Bombay bomb blast.
01:08:08Abu Salim is a high-profile convict.
01:08:11One of the mastermind of the 1993 Bombay blast.
01:08:15That is when I decided this is one guy that I will go after and try to get him if
01:08:19possible.
01:08:22There used to be various news that he is in US, Canada, or in the Gulf countries traveling under fake
01:08:29IDs.
01:08:30The criminals would change their numbers, they would change their location.
01:08:34They outwitted the system.
01:08:36But information technology has broken barriers.
01:08:40This Interpol headquarters hoarded to us emails.
01:08:44The email said that he will go to Norway and then onwards to Canada.
01:08:49We tracked the origins of that email.
01:08:53By the evening we had come to know that this email originated from Portugal.
01:09:10The police were waiting for this.
01:09:12While they left the police on the past,
01:09:12they were waiting for them to be confused.
01:09:13While they were waiting for a Gulshan Kumar,
01:09:15the police was waiting for us.
01:09:16After the police was waiting for a look at this scene in the past,
01:09:16and it was waiting for us to wait.
01:09:16The police were waiting for us to be with us.
01:09:17There was another one going from the past.
01:09:17Kevin Aarifal.
01:09:21The police were waiting for you.
01:09:25The police got.
01:09:26It was waiting for us.
01:09:29There's a police car.
01:09:30In Portugal, their constitution lays down that nobody will be extradited if death penalty
01:09:37can be imposed.
01:09:42The next day, I got a call from the legal advisor in CBI.
01:09:46He said, what do we do?
01:09:48How can we say that death penalty cannot be imposed?
01:09:51And it is such a serious offence of terrorism or murders and all.
01:09:55I said, sir, we have to decide, the bottom line is whether we want him back or not.
01:10:00If we have to get him back, there is no option for us but to give this assurance.
01:10:06Finally, he did agree.
01:10:11Gangster Abu Salim, accused in the 1993 bomb blast, is to be brought to India to face trial.
01:10:17Abu Salim is likely to escape the death penalty as his extradition from Portugal was on the
01:10:21grounds that he would not be given capital punishment.
01:10:24Getting an internationally recognized terrorist being extradited, it was a feeling of elation
01:10:29for all of us.
01:10:32Okay, stay with me.
01:10:33Divesh Abu Salim, one of the main conspirators of the 1993 bomb blast, given life sentence.
01:10:43Abu Salim has been found guilty under charges of TADA, conspiracy, murder, arms act and various
01:10:51other charges.
01:10:52There is pressure on the police to give punishment, but punishment is the job of the judiciary.
01:10:58Abu Salim, Abubai!
01:10:59Abu!
01:11:00Abu!
01:11:02Abu Salim going to present him, I think it was a message that societies do involve, you
01:11:10You don't have to encounter or kill them, there is another way.
01:11:15The death penalty had been handed out to hundreds of gangsters on the streets of Bombay by encounter
01:11:22specialists, but there could have been a better way for the dead and for these cops.
01:11:30They wanted to say something, who is going to decide this man is a gangster or not?
01:11:35You have no right to eliminate him, you are not supposed to kill that person.
01:11:38Try him, get him prosecuted, get him convicted.
01:11:46Pradeep Sharma was arrested for the fake encounter of an alleged gangster in 2006.
01:11:51Lakhkan Bhaiya was killed by the police in an encounter in the Mumbai police's controversial
01:11:54encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma is charged with kidnapping and killing in cold blood.
01:11:59Sharma was a poster boy of the Mumbai police.
01:12:02He was involved in 107 encounters in his 14 years of service.
01:12:07and he got into 18 years of trial.
01:12:11He got into prison because he killed your friend and killed your friend.
01:12:15There's one who I have harassed.
01:12:15And those who I have harassed, those are you.
01:12:20All gang members who have ran off there are all of them.
01:12:24You live in the random place, you live in the single place.
01:12:31Pradeep Sharma was arrested and landed in prison for his alleged role in the fake encounter
01:12:39of Ram Narayan Gupta, who was popularly known as Lakhan Bhaiya.
01:12:45And after that killing, his brother approached the Bombay High Court saying that Lakhan Bhaiya
01:12:51was killed in cold blood.
01:13:06When another former super cop who faced similar charges has now come out in Pradeep Sharma's
01:13:11defense, Sachin Baze, accused of killing Khwaja Yunus in a fake encounter, has sought to justify
01:13:16the act, calling it the ideal way to deal with criminals.
01:13:20Whether or not it's a fake encounter, we have to see the result of it.
01:13:24Yours say, if a genuinely bad guy is eliminated, even if it's a state shootout, it's okay.
01:13:28Why not?
01:13:29What do you mean?
01:13:31What do you mean?
01:13:38How do you mean?
01:13:39What do you mean?
01:13:39I'll never feel bad about them or if you have in the best.
01:13:43I'll never get sure enough for them to be窄 going.
01:13:44Because I've heard it, I hope that 24-25 years of this has been a certain choice.
01:13:47Everyone when we met them, we lost for half an hour.
01:14:12Did you believe him when he said that?
01:14:20Why don't you ask such questions?
01:14:28And what happened was, a police team picked up Lakhan Bhaiya from Vashi in Navi, Mumbai.
01:14:35But his encounter is said to have taken place the same day in the heart of the city,
01:14:42off Versova Link Road, near the Nananani Park, several hours later.
01:14:51What the inquiry found was, that Lakhan Bhaiya was killed at point-blank range.
01:14:59I was not involved in that encounter.
01:15:05He got a reward, he got a reward, he got a reward.
01:15:07All of them did.
01:15:08He didn't give me the name.
01:15:10If it happened, I would write my mother and lead my team.
01:15:13He got a reward.
01:15:17In all, thirteen policemen were charged.
01:15:21Many of them were believed to be working for Sharma, were answerable to Sharma.
01:15:28Many of them were said to be working for Harlan.
01:15:35Some of them would be so hard to do.
01:15:40He would not say much.
01:15:40What did you feel like?
01:15:44You killed him, you killed him?
01:15:46He killed him, you killed him, you killed him.
01:15:47No one killed him.
01:15:50He killed him.
01:15:52He killed him.
01:15:56He was a bomb for the murder.
01:15:58There was another aspect to this.
01:16:03The police were said to have picked up Anil Beda along with Lakhan Bhaiya.
01:16:09He was the star eyewitness, he was the only eyewitness.
01:16:12He went missing in March 2011, six days before he was supposed to depose before the court.
01:16:19Anil Beda was dead before the court.
01:16:28They found his body in New Bombay in a decomposed state.
01:16:32So in the end, Pradeep Sharma was set free owing to lack of evidence.
01:16:37Lakhan Bhaiya Farsi encounter maamilay mein Pradeep Sharma ko bari kar diya gaya hai.
01:16:43Mumbai police ke encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma ko Lakhan Bhaiya Farsi encounter maamilay mein bari kar diya gaya hai.
01:16:50Adalat parisar mein is fäisle ko sunne ke liye saikrnol ho ga hai.
01:16:53Inh mein kai polis wale aur wakil bhi thhe.
01:16:56Fäisle ke baat sabhi hairat mein dikhe.
01:17:03Mena usse yeh kaha bhi Hussain meinne kaha ta ta tumse.
01:17:05Mena yeh nahi kiya hai.
01:17:07Or dikhoa adalat ne mehi baat maan li ki meinne yeh nahi kiya.
01:17:09Or dikhoa adalat ne mehi baat maan li yaa saadhe pin saal.
01:17:19Yeh kualiti hoti yeh, hard core police officer ki.
01:17:23Ou kabhi peale har nii maan ta hai.
01:17:28Ek polis officer kiitna mi niche dal du.
01:17:31Ou bounce back karta yeh.
01:17:36Pradeep Sharma, when he was arrested,
01:17:38there was a sense of elation in the underworld.
01:17:43There was like joy.
01:17:46Pradeep Sharma, our own counter specialist
01:17:49who was very recently reinstated in the police
01:17:51after the charges against him
01:17:53was dropped in a fake encounter case.
01:17:55When we all got to know that Pradeep Sharma
01:17:58was released from jail,
01:18:00it did scare a lot of people.
01:18:03I had thought that the tide had turned
01:18:06against the counter cops.
01:18:09But then suddenly now he's back.
01:18:13Fear factor was there, very much there.
01:18:16I was very glad.
01:18:18I was very glad that I was out of the company.
01:18:21Because nobody knew what would happen.
01:18:32First of all, nobody was able to take me with myself.
01:18:35There were so many contourses.
01:18:41After that, there was a posturing of me.
01:18:43I was able to take my time.
01:18:46So Iqbal Kaskar was going to do X-roction record.
01:18:49That's how I feel about that.
01:18:52Iqbal was also Daoud Ibrahim's brother.
01:18:55Yes, Iqbal was such an animal for him.
01:18:58He was his main syndicate.
01:19:00He was born, Mohran.
01:19:01Then we had planned it,
01:19:04he tried similar tactics.
01:19:06When he came to the hospital,
01:19:11Iqbal kept his hands down.
01:19:15If someone comes to the police,
01:19:19he goes to the direct phone or the bell.
01:19:21The bell is connected.
01:19:23He doesn't do anything.
01:19:29All of them managed.
01:19:33He ran away from the police.
01:19:42He ran away from the police.
01:19:43The police came to the police.
01:19:47There was no lady.
01:19:49He took two horses.
01:19:51After the door opened,
01:19:52we were going to take him.
01:20:01Iqbal never came.
01:20:03We didn't eat.
01:20:06Iqbal, come on.
01:20:09Iqbal, come on.
01:20:09We were going to eat food.
01:20:15It was such a conversation.
01:20:20Big success story for the police in Thane.
01:20:23Encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma
01:20:25arrested a fugitive underworld dawn
01:20:27Dawud Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar.
01:20:29Dawud Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar,
01:20:31has been detained in Mumbai in connection with...
01:20:33That was a stunt.
01:20:34That was a clear stunt here.
01:20:35The man in charge of the investigation
01:20:37is encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma.
01:20:41Recently reinstated in the police force
01:20:43after being acquitted in a fake encounter case.
01:20:46The news crews conveniently landed off.
01:20:48Photographs happened.
01:20:49Everything happened.
01:20:50We have encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma.
01:20:53Sir, tell us a little bit
01:20:55that this operation was such a big operation.
01:20:59Iqbal Kaskar, he was not such a big fry.
01:21:01He was only a sibling of Dawud,
01:21:03but he was not some king twin of some big racket.
01:21:06Kaskar's surname is always good for front pages.
01:21:15I think that was the only reason Pradeep Sharma delayed
01:21:18is just to let people know that,
01:21:21hey, I'm changed.
01:21:36As the man who had around a hundred encounters to his name,
01:21:40Iqbal Kaskar's arrest seemed to be an opportunity
01:21:44to show a little bit of reformation
01:21:46as a cop who had evolved over time.
01:22:00This is a major blow to the Dawud-Abraheim gang.
01:22:18The guns are largely silent now.
01:22:21Many of Bombay's gangsters are dead in hiding or under arrest.
01:22:27I would think that by killing a few persons,
01:22:30I managed to remove terror.
01:22:32I managed to allow people to live their normal lives.
01:22:38Subsequently, what happened with these so-called encounter specialists,
01:22:41they did it for ulterior motive.
01:22:47Now today, unfortunately,
01:22:50if anyone says encounter,
01:22:52the heckles would rise,
01:22:54that it was something criminal.
01:22:58But I very proudly say,
01:23:02not a single one of my encounters
01:23:05was conducted in a hush-hush manner
01:23:09or in the middle of the night.
01:23:13See, killing a human being
01:23:15in any case is not easy.
01:23:17But if you justify yourself
01:23:20that you're doing something for public good,
01:23:22you can cope.
01:23:23how you feel that you're seeing
01:23:30I feel a little proud.
01:23:33I don't feel like that.
01:23:34I'm not a proud person.
01:23:35I got my identity from Ravindra Angragar.
01:23:37That's why I encountered
01:23:38the police department.
01:23:42I've encountered
01:23:43But politicians
01:23:43and big officers
01:23:45use and throw
01:23:46policy
01:23:47and they'll put me in the chair.
01:23:50What can I do?
01:23:53If you feel bad, you feel bad.
01:23:55I feel bad, you feel bad.
01:23:58I feel bad.
01:24:04If a crime grows, it will be completely removed.
01:24:09If a crime comes to control,
01:24:12it will not be necessary to counter-copy.
01:24:16It will be spread from the system.
01:24:21I am talking about this,
01:24:23but no one will frankly talk about it.
01:24:26No, I mean, no police officer
01:24:29doesn't want to be angry about this.
01:25:18So, we'll do this.
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