Pradeep Sharma

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Pradeep Sharma 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. 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. Sharma resigned from Mumbai police in July 2019 after a 35 year long career. He officially joined the ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra on September 13, 2019 and contested from Nalasopara seat in the Maharashtra assembly polls but lost to Bahujan Vikash Aghadi's candidate Kshitij Hitendra Thakur by a margin of 43,729 votes.

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In first such conviction, encounter specialist gets life for killing gangster Based on compelling evidence from a ballistic expert, the Bombay High Court found former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma guilty of leading an "illegal squad" involved in the fake encounter killing.. IndiaTimes - Published on March 19, 2024
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Antilia case-Hiran murder: NIA arrests former 'encounter specialist' Pradeep Sharma The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested former ‘encounter specialist' police officer Pradeep Sharma in connection with a probe into the ‘Antilia' bomb scare case and Mansukh.. IndiaTimes - Published on June 17, 2021