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Vijay Salaskar, AC (5 April 1957 – 26 November 2008) was an Indian police inspector and encounter specialist with the Mumbai police. He was widely credited with killing 75–80 criminals in encounters – most of these were members of the Arun Gawli gang. [2]
Vijay Salaskar (1957-2008) was a brave and popular officer who killed many criminals from the underworld gangs of Mumbai. He also revealed the gutka-underworld nexus and died fighting the terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Nov 28, 2008 · In 1997, he was accused by underworld don Arun Gawli of trying to eliminate him in a fake encounter after the cop gunned down his aides Sada Pawle and Vijay Tandel. Gawli went to the extent of writing to the government that Salaskar would bump him off in a fake encounter.
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Mar 23, 2024 · Sada Pawla alias Sada Mama, gangster Arun Gawli’s sidekick on whom Satya’s Kallu Mama was loosely based, had been gunned down by Vijay Salaskar, an ‘encounter specialist’ with the Mumbai Police, in Ghatkopar in 1997.
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May 6, 2024 · On November 26, 2008, Karkare, along with Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ashok Kamte, Inspector Vijay Salaskar and two other policemen, were killed outside the Cama Hospital after the Pakistani terrorists opened fire at them.
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Nov 3, 2016 · Vijay Salaskar. One of the last of Mumbai Poice’s famous encounter specialists, Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar was posted as the head of the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch during 26/11. A 1983-batch officer, Salaskar had gunned down over 80 criminals through his career and had built an extensive intelligence network.
Nov 26, 2023 · Vijay Salaskar was an encounter specialist and the head of the Mumbai Anti-Extortion Cell. He was killed by Ajmal Kasab along with Hemant Karkare and Ashok Kamte in a shootout outside Cama Hospital on November 26, 2008.
