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New Delhi: An upright, conscientious officer, one who leads by example and is omniscient with a wealth of field experience this is how colleagues describe the 1990-batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, Sadanand Vasant Date, who took over the reins of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Sunday...
From the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack where he was one of the first to reach Cama Hospital, which was under attack, put a bullet in terrorist Abu Ismails torso and rescue people to the Shakti Mills gangrape, the Telgi scam and the 2007 Kingfisher ticketing scam, Dates illustrious career is punctuated by his pivotal role in high-stakes situations during his tenure with the Maharashtra Police...
For his role in the 26/11 attacks, Date was awarded the Presidents Police Medal for gallantry...
Recalling Dates role in the Kingfisher ticketing fraud case of 2007 and the Telgi scam, a third Mumbai Police officer said that he always has an out of the box approach to look at cases, which has always proven to be successful...
Similarly, with the Telgi case, Date and his teams tracked the transactions, and collected impeccable evidence to ensure a conviction, an officer told ThePrint...
