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The book Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief by a retired IPS Officer Meeran Chadda Borwankar is extrordinary for two reasons: silence and evasion. This IPS Officer had served the Maharashtra Police for nearly 4 decades and retired as the first wo,man Police Commissioner of Mumbai, an achievement. The reader expects a great deal from a person with such a range of experience who has risen from the ranks. However we are disapponted.
The author served in Maharshtra Police in 1993 wnen the Mumbai bomb blasts in 12 places took palce to which Sharad Pawar in his wisdom added one more making the numner 13. As a responsible citizen she should have given us some explanation regarding the 13 bomb blast. Sharad Pawar is on record saying thst he invented the 13 bomb blast in a "muslim" locality to defuse the "communal" situation. What a pathetic excuse to interfere in a crimianl investigation on a brutal terror attack on innocent citizens. If she is silent on the matter of the 1993 terror attacks, she is equally silent om the Mumbai attacks launched from Pakistan which witnessed 3 days of blood and mayhen in Mumbai: 26/11 attacks in 2008. Given the controversy over the attack stirred by by the Congress leader, Dig Vijaya Singh, clarification on this controversy would have been welcome. Silence on such important matters is not a good option.
Her book follows the standard protocol of any Police/Officer autobiography. Recruitment, recollection of training and early posting, marriage, birth of children, district posting, rise in the hierachy and the trials and tribulations of high office. In the case of this particular Officer she seems to have successfully pursued the infamous Jalgaon Sex Scandal in which a number of local policicians were involved. The speed with which she managed to arrest and prosecute them suggests that the accused belonged to the Shiva Sena and therefore the National Congress Party regime had no hesitation in unleashing the full force of the law. Of course when the BJP and Shiva Sena came to power many cases involving the Shiva Sena were withdrawn. Madam Commissioner does not say anything about the nexus between the crimnal underworld represented by the likes of Dawood Ibrahim and the Police. Guns and explosives were brought into Mumbai under the very nose of the Police. And the silence of Meeran Borwankar is rather eloquent. Curiously, the Mumbai Police effectively foiled an attampt by Shri Ajit Doval to send trained personnel to track down and punish the 1993 Mumbai Blast crimianls. Meeran's explanation that they were only intercepting Chota Rajan gang members does not sound convincing at all.
Another issue on which she maintains stratregic silence is on the Vohra Committee Report which went into the close nexus between Maharashtra politicians and the Mumbai undersworld. It is obvious that the impunity with which the underworld operated was possible only due to political patronage across the ideological spectrum. We have already pointed out how Sharad Pawar did not hesitate to lie and prevaricate in orcer to defend the identity group involved in the 1993 blasts in which 265 citizens were killed. I have no hesitation in saying the the rise of Narendra Modi has ended the menace of Islamic terror in India.
On the whole this is an interesting book. But the reader cannot exoept any major expose.
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