Mumbai’s encounter era: When underworld sharp shooters and gang members were gunned down by cops

The 1990s stood out as a tumultuous decade marked by the dark underbelly of organised crime. It was an era when the city's streets were not just avenues of commerce and culture but battlegrounds for power, marked by encounters and controversies

The recent 'Badlapur encounter' of Akshay Shinde, an accused in the sexual assault of two minor girls at a Badlapur school, has reignited attention on the term 'police encounter.' In the 1990s, during Mumbai's underworld era, police encounters were a common method used to eliminate gang members.

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