Updated On: 30 May, 2009 08:01 AM IST | | J Dey
Mumbai's first encounter specialist ACP Isaque Bagwan, who retires today, recalls the day 26 years ago when he fired his gun in a courtroom
Mumbai's first encounter specialist ACP Isaque Bagwan, who retires today, recalls the day 26 years ago when he fired his gun in a courtroom
Mumbai's first encounter specialist ACP Isaque Bagwan retires today after 35 years of service, but he clearly remembers the day when he fired his gun in the courtroom.
It was 11.30 am on September 6, 1983. Bagwan, then a police sub-inspector attached to the Crime Branch, had just escorted gangster Amirzada Nawab Khan to the sessions court in connection with the murder of Shabir, the elder brother of Amirzada's arch rival Dawood Ibrahim.
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