Maria’s pursuit eventually led to Mudaliar fleeing Mumbai, never to return. The first important case he worked on was pursuing the notorious don Varadarajan Mudaliar. Maria’s tenure began in the early 1990s at a time when crime in Mumbai (then Bombay), especially gangland warfare, was at its worst. In every chapter, he acknowledges all the policemen who helped him. Hence, his version of events in this book could be considered documentation of what really happened during some of the worst cases of communal violence and terror attacks in Mumbai. While in office, Maria rarely opened up to the media even during the 26/11 attacks.
#Biting the bullet strategy cracked
Maria’s language is simple, even somewhat colloquial, but his accounts of the several cases he cracked are gripping and absorbing. The charming personal anecdotes provide a glimpse into his softer and humorous side, particularly his experiences as a young married man posted in the districts. Those who have interacted with Maria know him as tough and ruthless. but quickly shifts to the traditional format of an autobiography by describing his childhood as a “Bandra boy”, his family background, and his determination at a very young age to become a policeman. Using the analogy of a film opening, Maria begins his narrative with his controversial removal as C.P. Maria’s story could be the chronicle of crime in the maximum city over the last three decades. Questions are now being raised by opposition parties on why he withheld this angle during the investigation. Maria explains that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) wanted the world to believe that the Mumbai terror attacks were “Hindu terror” unleashed on its own people. “If all had gone well, he would have been dead with a red string tied around his wrist like a Hindu,” he writes. He says in the book that he found a “chink in his armour”. Maria was the first to interrogate Kasab, who was responsible for the attack on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the killing of three top police officers, Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar and Ashok Kamte.
The other controversial chapter is Maria’s investigation of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist nabbed in the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai. and whom the latter calls “a Mukerjea-friendly C.P.” in the book, said his comments were in “poor taste” and “bereft of truth”. He also said that Maria belonged to a film family and knew the art of creating drama. When the book was released, it sent the State administration into a tizzy as one of the officers, Deven Bharti, is the current Maharashtra Police Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) chief and the other, Ahmed Javed, is a former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.īharti responded to Maria’s allegations in the book saying that they were a marketing strategy to attract publicity.
He alludes to two officers as being behind his transfer and to the scuttling of an investigation that should have started much earlier. In his tell-all page-turner, Maria explains how and where it all happened. The transfer made headlines as he had just begun investigating the Sheena Bora murder case in which the power couple, the media mogul Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani Mukerjea, had been arrested. It will be interesting to see whether these revelations have an impact on the trial.Ī few months before he was to retire, Maria was “promoted” as Director General of Police (DGP), Home Guards. The book, which chronicles his life as an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has stirred a hornet’s nest with its explosive revelations on high-profile cases, including the ongoing Sheena Bora murder case. This February, Rakesh Maria made a sensational comeback with the release of his memoirs, titled In his tenure of 36 years, Maria had been part of almost every major investigation in Mumbai involving the underworld terror attacks rape cases, notably the Shakti Mills rape case and murder cases, including the Sheena Bora murder. When he retired in January 2017, it was hard to imagine a Mumbai police force without him. F ormer Mumbai Commissioner of Police (C.P.) Rakesh Maria is perhaps the most well-known of the city’s “super cops”.
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