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