Mumbai: Senior police inspector Daya Nayak, once known as an `encounter specialist’, was on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, an official said.
Senior inspectors Jivan Kharat, Deepak Dalvi and Pandurang Pawar too were promoted as ACP by the order of the Maharashtra home department, he said.
Mr. Nayak, who joined Mumbai Police in 1995 and is currently posted at the Bandra unit of the crime branch, rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the police officers who gunned down a number of gangsters in ‘encounters’.
