To Sharma’s supreme disappointment, his first posting was with the Airport Police Station in the western suburbs. Out of 450 cadets in the 83 batch, around ninety were posted in Mumbai. Manya, among the few educated members of the underworld, had managed to hold his own in the city for two years despite organized crime gangs springing up all around him.Īlso read: Not just Delhi, there is growing disconnect between police leadership & constabulary in India Manohar Surve, alias Manya, a young resident of Dadar who went from being a college class topper to a dreaded dacoit, had been gunned down in Wadala on 11 January 1982.
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Just a year before the batch of 83 graduated from MPA at Nashik, Mumbai had witnessed its first encounter killing. The citizens were getting restless, and the police were getting desperate. Contract killings were the order of the day. Blood spilled freely on the Mumbai streets. The Pathan gangs and Dawood Ibrahim were also locked in a violent battle. Gangsters like Karim Lala, Babu Reshim and Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan, were waging war against each other to establish their supremacy over the city. The underworld in Mumbai at the time was flourishing with extortion rackets. In the late 1980s, there was only one destination of choice for ambitious, young policemen: Mumbai. And yet, there are others who want ‘cream’ postings where money and influence can be accumulated in little time and in large quantities. Some hope to get posted in conflict zones like Naxalite areas, where risk is paralleled only by accolades. Some want to serve in or around their hometowns to be near their families. Each policeman has his own ideas and expectations. Near the end of his training period, every police recruit is consumed by a single concern: his first posting.