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Maharashtra: Ex-IPS Sanjay Pandey Joins Congress, Likely To Contest Vidhan Sabha Polls Next

A 1986-batch retired IPS officer, Mr. Pandey is an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur and was appointed Mumbai Police Commissioner in Feb, 2022
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Retired IPS officer and the former Mumbai Top Cop, Mr. Sanjay Pandey has decided to enter politics by joining the Congress party. Ex-IPS Pandey is expected to contest the upcoming state assembly elections from Mumbai, with the GOP considering fielding him from a constituency with a significant north Indian population.

The General Secretary of Maharashtra Congress, Mr. Sachin Sawant, said, “He (Mr. Pandey) is an honest and upright officer who has set an example for the force. He is joining the party in the presence of Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala and Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad today.

Ex-IPS Pandey has never refrained from accepting his political ambitions. Previously, he announced plans to contest from the Versova assembly seat in Mumbai and had formed his own political outfit called the Rashtriya Janhit Party. He had also contemplated running in the recent Lok Sabha elections, considering the Mumbai North Central and Mumbai North West constituencies, but later changed his plans.

A 1986-batch retired IPS officer, Mr. Pandey is an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur and was appointed Mumbai Police Commissioner on February 18th, 2022. Despite being regarded as an upright officer, his career has not been without controversy.

During his tenure as Mumbai police commissioner, Officer Pandey faced scrutiny. In June 2022, he was arrested by central agencies in connection with the National Stock Exchange (NSE) phone-tapping case. He currently faces two FIRs filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). One pertains to the illegal interception of NSE employees’ phones by iSec Services Private Ltd, a company he founded, while the other concerns violations of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) guidelines in conducting NSE’s system audit. Following his arrest, Pandey spent nearly five months in custody.

On 8th December 2022, the Delhi High Court granted him bail in the ED’s money-laundering case. In its bail order, the court noted that although the CBI had charged Pandey with cheating, criminal breach of trust, and bribery, none of these offences’ elements were found in the case. The bribery charges were deemed inapplicable as there were no allegations of anyone demanding or accepting a bribe.


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