MUMBAI GETS ITS NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER- “RAKESH MARIA” IPS ,1981 BATCH

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has appointed Rakesh Maria as the Mumbai Police Commissioner.Mr Maria, a 1981 batch IPS officer known for having cracked the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case, the 2003 Gateway and Zaveri Bazar blasts case and for probing the 26/11 terror attacks of 2008, will head the department for at least two years. In a situation unprecedented in the history of the Mumbai police there was no Police Commissioner for 15 days after Satyapal Singh quit and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.