Mumbai: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey will now play a political innings. Sanjay Pandey joined Congress on Thursday in the presence of Mumbai Congress President Varsha Gaikwad. Addressing the media, Sanjay Pandey said that he wanted to join Congress since 2004 but the right time has come now.
Claimed to form government in the state
Sanjay Pandey claimed that this time the India Alliance government will be formed in the state. He said that when the Maha Vikas Aghadi comes to power, the common man will not need to be afraid. Criticizing the Mahayuti (NDA), he said that I can say how false cases were registered against me.
Congress leaders welcomed Sanjay Pandey
While talking to India TV on Sanjay Pandey joining the Congress, Congress leader Aslam Sheikh said that the misuse of ED and CBI was the reason for Sanjay Pandey’s arrest. BJP has no right to question Sanjay Pandey’s joining the Congress. According to Aslam Sheikh, educated people like Sanjay Pandey are welcome in the Congress.
ED arrested him in illegal phone tapping case
Let us tell you that former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey was arrested by the ED in July 2022 in connection with the alleged illegal phone tapping of NSE employees from 2009 to 2017. Sanjay Pandey got bail in December 2022 after spending five months in jail. Sanjay Pandey, a 1986 batch IPS officer, has also been the Mumbai Police Commissioner as well as the DGP of Maharashtra. Former officer Sanjay Pandey has also been considered close to Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray.
Sanjay Pandey has been a student of Kanpur IIT
Let us tell you that Sanjay Pandey is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, where he completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. He then did an internship at Crompton Greaves in Mumbai. He joined the IPS in 1986, where he was Assistant Superintendent of Police and was promoted to the post of Superintendent of Police in 1990. During the communal riots in Mumbai in 1992–93, he was Deputy Commissioner of Police, when he unearthed the infamous cobbler scam he was transferred to the Economic Offences Wing as DCP.