June , 2008
Blundering cops on the beat
An IPS officer heading one of the most high-profile districts in Delhi was once shunted out because he personally made a hoax bomb call from his office landline to settle scores with an amusement park owner. Around the same time, another senior Delhi Police officer was taken to task as he managed to get so drunk one evening, he ended up abusing the police commissioner on his wireless set - with the entire top brass listening in to this unexpected Prime Time entertainment with great embarrassment. If you haven't yet begun rolling over, here's another one. A district police chief in Delhi once held a press conference claiming arrest of the accused within 24 hours in a case where two foreigners were raped. Nothing wrong with this just that he decided to get the victims to the press conference and paraded them in front of the media. He even....




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Vinay Tewari heads CNN-IBN's daily news gathering operations and all special news events. He started his career as a reporter with The Pioneer in Lucknow. He worked with The Times of India in Delhi for about 9 years where he was part of the team which launched Delhi Times before moving to reporting on crime, courts, urban governance and politics. He joined the the TV Today Network as Metro Editor in 2001.




























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