Mumbai’s new top cop had played key role during 26/11 attacks

Senior IPS officer Hemant Nagrale, who was on Wednesday appointed as the new law enforcement commissioner of Mumbai, experienced played an critical part for the duration of the 26/11 assaults as he experienced recovered a bag containing RDX in south Mumbai, which he experienced shifted to a safer spot.

Nagrale was on deputation as director of vigilance at the Maharashtra State Electrical power Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) at that time and utilised to reside at the law enforcement quarters in Colaba area, which was specific by the terrorists.

“In the course of the terror assaults, Nagrale stepped out of his residence on his very own in purchase to support. When he attained the area of Lodge Taj, which experienced been attacked by the terrorists, he located a bag containing RDX lying nearby. He instantly took it to a safer spot and thus saved a number of life,” a law enforcement official said.

The 1987-batch officer later called the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS), he said.

Alongside with 4 other policemen, Nagrale then entered the Lodge Taj, in which they also served in rescuing a quantity of wounded individuals and shifting them to hospitals. They also took a number of bodies out.

Nagrale, an avid golfer and a tennis player, is a receiver of the President’s Police Medal, Vishesh Seva Padak and Antarik Suraksha Padak.

In the course of his tenure as Distinctive IGP (Administration) in the DG workplace, he revamped the