Little did Bagwan know, as he discussed the details of the tip-off with his colleagues, that their plan to trap Surve would lead to the first ever police encounter, a term that spawned a culture of its own in the Mumbai police force.īagwan told his colleagues that Manya had instructed the informer, a vehicle thief who had once spent a year with the gangster in Arthur Road jail, to leave a stolen car for him in the parking lot at Ambedkar College. Sub-inspector Issac Bagwan, one of the branch’s ace detectives, had received a tip-off from one of his ‘khabris’ (informers) that gangster Manya Surve, who had eluded the cops for long, was likely to show up near Ambedkar College at Wadala in north-central Mumbai the next morning. The afternoon of January 10, 1982, there was feverish activity in the office of the detection crime branch, an elite wing of the Mumbai police, inside the police headquarters at Crawford Market.
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