Click to play videoNew Delhi: Mumbai has always had its dirty Harrys, but in the Capital, ACP Rajbir Singh's name was at top of the list. Singh carried out 56 encounters until he himself met a bloody end.
Rajbir Singh joined the Delhi Police force as a sub-inspector in 1982, and advanced to the post of Inspector in 1994.
He was promoted to the rank of ACP when he eliminated gangsters like Rajbir Ramala and Ranpal Gujjar in a space of months.
Ex-commissioner, Delhi Police, Ajay Raj Sharma, says, “Rajbir’s method was intelligence based. He was very well equipped with intelligence of these types of persons. Whatever methods he may have used, he did that very successfully. He had first-hand information of these people.”
Between 1996 and 1998, Rajbir killed several suspected terrorists.
He shot dead two Kashmiris at Delhi’s Ansal Plaza mall, claiming they were Lashar-e-Toiba terrorists, but he was accused of staging the encounter.
Rajbir's controversial career as an encounter cop ended in 2005, when the Delhi Police, recorded a conversation between him and a drug dealer. Following that, he was transferred from the special cell of the Delhi Police on charges of corruption.
“A time must have come when many criminals must have thought that if they didn't have Rajbir Singh on their right side, then he would liquidate them. So that fear of being liquidated must have created this situation,” Ex-commissioner, Delhi Police, T R Kakkar, says.
n March 2008, Rajbir was allegedly shot dead by property agent Vijay Bhardwaj over a property dispute. The murder threw up questions about Rajbir's role in land deals around Delhi.
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