Rakesh maria interview
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Rakesh Maria Age, Caste, Wife, Family, Biography & More
in meters- 1.88 m
in feet inches- 6’ 2”
in pounds- 154 lbs
• Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) in 1993
• Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime)
• Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime)
• Chief of Mumbai's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS)
• Commissioner of the Mumbai Police on 15 February 2014
• Director-General of the Home Guard
• Police Medal for Meritorious Services
• 50th Anniversary Independence Medal
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Let Me Say it Now
Over the last couple of decades, Mumbai has had its fair share of organised crime and terror attacks. Chain snatchings, extortions, gang-rapes, communal violence, terrorist bombings and then of course the mother of all attacks on 26/11 which lasted for over 48 hours and brought out some of the best and worst of Mumbai on display.
After each incident, the common refrain has been to lay the blame at the doorstep of the Mumbai Police department for their lack of intelligence and capability for dealing with the problems of the maximum city.
Rakesh Maria, having served in the Crime Branch, ATS and then as Commissioner of Police – Mumbai, has not just had a ring-side view to these events, but has played a key role in investigating many of these crimes and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
His autobiography, ‘Let Me Say It Now’ comes at a time when the public memory is fresh enough for the back-story behind each of these incidents. Hence, as Mr Maria takes us back to the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts or the acts
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The people's commissioner
Rakesh Maria, one of Mumbai Police's most loved officers, beats seniors to the top job
Gayatri Jayaraman
February 21, 2014 | UPDATED 14:53 IST
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Have you read Sherlock Holmes?" asks ACP Sanjay Kadam of the Anti Terrorism Squad, an old associate of Mumbai's new Commissioner of Police (CP) Rakesh Maria. "That is him."
In 1994, CBI detained one Dr Jalis Ansari. Unable to crack the man who would come to be known as "Dr Bomb of Bombay", the agency called a young crime branch officer who was earning a name for sharpness. DCP Rakesh Maria arrived and within half an hour, he had Ansari confess to over 60 blasts at gurdwaras and police stations between 1989 and 1994. And contrary to Suketu Mehta's portrayal in Maximum City, Maria did not lay a hand on him. "You can't break hardened criminals with a fist. Maria is Holmes. Even as the criminal talks of
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