The Local Arms branch of the Mumbai Police Wednesday obtained permission from a sessions court in Mumbai to question Daya Nayak regarding the use of bullets assigned to him while he was in service.
The Supreme Court Friday refused to interfere with the Bombay high court decision not to grant anticipatory bail to suspended Mumbai police officer Daya Nayak.
'I will never be involved in any wrong activity because I have seen a day when I had nothing,' says the Mumbai police's 'encounter' specialist Daya Nayak.
'India has a conviction rate of about 25% for serious crimes. This means that 75% of the time the police probably get the wrong suspect, and this makes murdering them in an encounter more morally problematic for the officers concerned.' says Aakar Patel.
The 61-year-old former top cop from Mumbai changed professions after listening to his 'inner voice'.
Why do the biggest, most talented and successful film-makers of India suck up to the establishment so breathlessly, asks Shekhar Gupta.
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It's perverse to rationalise 'controlled' killings or torture -- without going down a slippery moral slope. Once the state stoops to torture, it's liable to sink into tyranny, says Praful Bidwai.
'If you question the police you become an anti-national and that is ridiculous.' 'Either you say we live by the Constitution or you say the State will not follow the Constitution.'
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