Mumbai, January 21
One of Mumbai’s famed “encounter specialists” Daya Nayak has been booked for holding assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The offenses against Nayak were registered after the anti-corruption bureau of the Mumbai police raided properties belonging to him in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The raid on Nayak came more than two years after an inquiry was set up against him. So far assets worth crores of rupees held by Nayak have been uncovered, police sources said.
The probe against Nayak came after a journalist, Ketan Tirodkar, filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against Nayak. Tirodkar, a former friend of Nayak, is himself accused of links with the underworld.
Nayak is absconding and efforts are on to trace him, the sources said. Nayak, who began life as a waiter at Mumbai’s Udupi hotels, attended night schools to qualify for the police force. He subsequently became famous for gunning down 83 alleged gangsters in “encounters”.
