Would any police officer in Kerala today dare to arrest a leader of the ruling party, and that too a district president? But in 2001, during the A.K. Antony government, a tough cop from Maharashtra created a controversy by arresting Kozhikode DCC President Advocate M. Veerankutty from a lodge early dawn, only for his involvement in the commissioner's office march that turned violent the previous day.

There is more than one lore associated with Maharashtra native Vijay Sakhare, the former Kozhikode City Police Commissioner. Today, Sakhare is the Additional Director General of the NIA. Sakhare will lead the ten-member NIA team investigating the Delhi blasts.

A product of Harvard University, US Sakhare is a 1996 Kerala cadre IPS officer. Sakhare became a controversial figure in Kerala due t

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