The strange case of Sanjay Pandey, IPS officer who ran his own firm

ED's questioning may reveal some truths about one of the biggest scams in corporate governance India, but it will also shine a light on relations between the police and Maharashtra government

Maharashtra is rapidly becoming the killing fields for the careers of officers from the Indian Police Service (IPS). Senior retired IPS officers hold back from saying that Maharashtra is the worst state in terms of political pulls and pressures, but concede that it is a very difficult environment to work in.

However, there is cautious ‘no comment’ on Sanjay Pandey, a software engineer by training who joined the IPS; “quit” it; amazingly, rejoined it; launched his own business somewhere along the way, and is now in Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody on charges of money-laundering in the National Stock Exchange (NSE)