Pursuing a home break theft in Indiranagar reported in June this year, the Indiranagar cops jailed well-known gangster Bombay Saleem, after a hot pursuit in Pune, just recently. He was given the city for additional examination and his cellphone took. While inspecting his cellphone, authorities were stunned to discover an image of gangster Saleem in a cops constable’s uniform and questioned him.
Saleem admitted that he was jailed by Govindapura authorities about an year ago in a robbery case and was gotten of station with a cops escort for a healing. A cops constable determined as H.R. Sonar had actually stuck with Saleem in a hotel and had actually headed out leaving his uniform behind. Saleem used the uniform, made a video call to his spouse before taking a selfie, it was exposed.
Taking strong objections to this, D. Devaraj, DCP (East Division) stated that the authorities constable Sonar has actually been suspended for dereliction of responsibility pending query.
Bombay Saleem apparently runs a gang active in numerous parts of South India and has more than 40 cases, consisting of murder versus him. Jailed numerous times, he is understood to run from within the jail also with impunity.
Released – August 07, 2025 09:28 pm IST