A close encounter of the daring kind
A close encounter of the daring kind
ByBellie ThomasBellie Thomas / Updated: Feb 27, 2021, 06:00 IST
A ssistant Commissioner of
Police Sakri of the Banaswadi sub-division will never forget January 18, a day when his heroic team dodged bullets. Assitant Sub-Inspector Dinesh Shetty, who was part of the encounter team and missed the
bullets by a few inches, recalled, “It was God’s grace that I escaped
Mehraj’s shots that day.”
ACP Sakri had taken charge on November 26, last year and was determined to curb rowdy elements in his sub-division. The two names that topped the list were Mehraj (28) and Abrar (31), who had over 40 cases registered against them, mostly of robberies, murders, rape, kidnap, housebreak, etc. Mehraj was even convicted for four years by a court in Tumkur but remained untraceable. Mehraj, a native of Uttar Pradesh, was brought up in