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I  have done 83 encounters. I have arrested more than 300 criminals. I have solved many big cases. I eliminated many top criminals of Mumbai — Vinod Matkar, Rafik Dabawala, Taufiq Kaliya. In an encounter at Dadar’s busy flower market during peak hours I was injured and hospitalised for 17 days. I gunned down three terrorists. They had thrown a bomb at me but luckily I only suffered minor injuries.

                                 - Daya Nayak himself at rediff interview

The  Ascent !!

In the year 1979  he had come to Mumbai as his financial condition  was very bad .This Mangalore-born Nayak began life cleaning tables at 9 at Mumbai restaurants before joining the city police force.He worked for eight years in a hotel till he completed his graduation. After which he worked with a plumber as a supervisor till he got a police job .He  is the reported
inspiration for N Chandra’s Kagaar and Ram Gopal Varma’s Ab Tak chappan

The descent !!

Daya Nayak’s fall from grace began in 2004 when a petition was filed by a journalist Ketan Tirodkar, who had alleged that Nayak had links with the underworld(Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel) and that he possessed disproportionate assets.He was accused of amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income after the city’s Anti-Corruption Bureau raided several of his residences and recovered at least Rs.9 crore (two million dollars) worth of illegal assets.It was also alleged that Nayak used to kill the rivals of underworld dons with whom he had made links on the pretext of police encounters.

Taking note of the allegations,  an enquiry was ordered  into Daya Nayak’s wealth.According to the report submitted by the Assistant Commissoner of Police Dilip Sawant, the investigating officer  most of the investments were made in the name of Nayak’s wife. The report also claimed that Nayak owns a fleet of luxury tourist buses and a travel company in the
name of Vishal Travels in Andheri, besides a penthouse on Malad-Link Road registered in the name of one of his relatives. It also states that he himself  had financed two films, a Kannada film titled Encounter Daya Nayak and a Hindi film Kagaar.

Nayak had moved for anticipatory bail, which was first rejected by the Sessions Court and later by the Bombay High Court.He has also appealed in the Supreme Court, but it refused to interfere and asked him to surrender before the Sessions Court and apply for bail. Finally the Suspended police officer Daya Nayak has turned himself in before a Sessions
Court in Mumbai.