Daya Nayak (Kannada: ದಯಾ ನಾಯಕ್) is a sub-inspector with the Mumbai police force. He was reinstated in Mumbai Police on 16th June, 2012. He had received suspension order based on allegations of disproportionate income by an underworld criminal. He rose to fame for having eliminated more than eighty gangsters of the Mumbai underworld as a member of the Mumbai Encounter Squad, which was created by the Maharashtra Government for tackling the increasing problems of underworld extortion, gang wars, and a terrible law and order situation.
In February 2006, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Mumbai Police declared Nayak absconding; when he voluntarily surrendered at the court, they arrested him on a non-bailable warrant. Despite multiple raids and an intensive investigation, the ACB could not find any evidence against Nayak as possessing any assets disproportionate to his income. In 2008, a court threw out the ACB's demands for a re-arrest and condemned the ACB for targeting and vilifying a police officer without proof. In July 2010, SC dismissed, for technical reasons, the private complaint saying that prior sanction had not been taken from the Mumbai Police chief before starting proceedings in the private complaint.
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