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Former Maharashtra Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey, who was also former Mumbai police commissioner, said on Friday that he will contest the upcoming assembly elections from Mumbai.
“I have been interested in joining politics for a long time but didn’t get the opportunity earlier. Now I have decided to contest the Assembly elections from the Versova seat,” Pandey said.
Pandey had considered running for the Lok Sabha from the Mumbai-North West seat as an independent candidate but later withdrew.
Appointed Mumbai police commissioner on February 18, 2022, Pandey retired from service on June 30 the same year. An IIT-Kanpur alumnus and 1986 batch IPS officer, Pandey was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in July and September 2022, respectively, in connection with the NSE phone-tapping case. He spent nearly five months in custody.
The Delhi High Court granted him bail in the money laundering case on December 8, 2022.
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