Date: November 13th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: ultramarine
Pradeep Sharma (born 1961) is a former officer in the police force of Mumbai, India. Sharma attained notability as an "encounter specialist" with the Mumbai Encounter Squad and was involved with the deaths of as many as 312 criminals.[1] On 31 August 2008 he was suspended from the Mumbai police on charges of corruption but was reinstated on 16 August 2017 after he was proven innocent of those charges.[2] Sharma resigned from Mumbai police in July 2019 after a 35 year long career.
Date: November 13th, 2026 11:22 PM Author: ultramarine
Wikipedia rabbit hole of Bishnoi gang -> Khalistan -> Amritsar siege -> Indian law enforcement -> the term "encounter expert".
It turns out India's solution to its sclerotic criminal justice system is to simply have policemen take out sufficiently incriminated suspects and shoot them out of hand. It happened in 2019 and the locals literally threw a parade for the police: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/06/asia/india-hyderabad-rape-suspects-shot-intl-hnk although, as s in the case of the literal Pradeep above, there are token official efforts to discourage it.