Shivdeep Lande

Shivdeep Lande was working as the DCP Narcotics in Mumbai Crime Branch when he was asked to check the western Mumbai to ensure no bar or restaurant was defying norms. Informers were called up when Saroj Palace bar in Malor, Andheri was found operating. The case came to light when a team led by Lande, from the AntiNarcotics Cell, Kandivli unit, raided Saroj Palace on 30 March 2019 as directed by commissioner of police, Sanjay Barve to carry out surprise checks at bars and restaurants. Obscene dances are not authorized in a dance bar according to the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurant and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women (Working therein) Act, 2016(revised)and an employer allowing them would be jailed for three years. The team arrested 15 people and four women working at the bar registered a complaint at the MIDC police station.

Lande has currently involved in an ongoing investigation into the seizure of drugs and is unfolding as the biggest seizure by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) in India. The ANC of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch had seized 100 kg of a substance claimed to be fentanyl in December 2018. Further investigation by the forensic department proved the illicit to be 1-Phenethyl-4-Piperidone, which is used in the production of fentanyl and is a restrained substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The drug was valued at Rs 1000 crore and was to be shipped to Mexico and then would be smuggled to the US according to claims by the Police. The main accused in the case was Salim Dola, reported to have ties with international drug cartels said Shivedeep Lande, deputy commissioner of police, ANC.

In July 2018, Lande, under the leadership of Sanjay Barve, the recently appointed city commissioner of Mumbai, launched an operation against Nigerian drug peddlers and arrested nine Nigerian nationals peddling drugs like cocaine and Mephedrone alias MD alias Meow Meow. 104 gram of cocaine worth Rs 5,20,000 and 09 grams of Mephedrone worth Rs 18,000 were reportedly seized from the accused.

Lande joined the Maharashtra Police in the year 2017 on central deputation from Bihar and is currently serving as Deputy Commissioner of Police- Anti Narcotics Cell, Crime Branch-Mumbai. He took the inter-state deputation of 3 years to come to his home state Maharashtra. In Bihar, Lande headed the Special Task Force (STF) as his last posting.

In 2015, Land mafia in Rohtas district of Bihar opened fire on him while he was serving there as the Superintendent of Police. He had a narrow escape from the open fire. The reason behind the act being Lande's numerous raids on local stone mills to attack the unauthorized mills. This was a one-time thing that happened in the state ever, where 100 stone-crusher units were demolished in a single day. It was believed that the alleged nexus between stone mafia and local cops made his transfer in August 2015.

The Action Taken Report (ATR) sought by the state home department on the basis of a detailed report submitted to the state government by then Rohtas SP Shivdeep Lande in 2015 left senior police officers of four districts of south and central Bihar red-faced. In it, Lande said over-loading of trucks carrying coal and stone chips from Jharkhand caused an estimated loss of Rs 1,000 crore per annum. Also, it said, the entry mafia had made strong inroads into police and the political class in south and central Bihar and allowed trucks to enter Bihar, with forged documents, from Jharkhand through the main check post on Grand Trunk road. On 29 May 2015, Lande had seized 65 trucks carrying illegal coal from Jharkhand and two FIRs were lodged with the Dehri town police station in Rohtas district. The racket had been go

On 30th august 2014, following the leads that were delivered from tracking Child Trafficking gangs in and around Araria in Bihar, Lande was further involved in rescuing 2 underage girls from a brothel in Forbesganj sub-division in Araria district. Cues divulged by an NGO to the police, helped them to swoop down red light area and arrested Raju who was the alleged Kingpin of a girl’s traffickers gang and one of the victim was identified as sister of another girl rescued from Khuskibagh in Purnia when SP Shivdeep Lande, Araria busted the gangs of traffickers in September 2012.

A social welfare programme, Indira Awaas Yojana (hereafter, IAY), to aid poorest of poor showed signs of discrepancy as per the reports provided by Controller and Auditor of State. While Shivdeep Lande was working as SP, his investigations uncovered that the Centre gave 40 lakh – Rs. 10,000 each for 400 families to repair and construct IAY houses in Chirha panchayat under Jokihat constituency. The then Block Development Officer (BDO) of the Panchayat Samiti, allegedly enrolled fake names in logbook and put fake thumb impressions to withdraw the money. B K Gupta, the national monitor of Union Rural Development Ministry, visited Jokihaat and sent his report saying that the BDO was the prime suspect in fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 40 lakh from the Central fund. Then BDO Ramesh Jha, filed and FIR at Jokihat police station against this, who is now himself wanted in seven IAY cases.

On 9 January 2012, three unqualified volunteers were held by bihar police for performing tubectomies on 53 women without any proper medicine or anaesthesia under a health camp organized by director of a voluntary organization in Patna, Bihar. Tubectomy or tubal ligation, is a surgical procedure for sterilisation which involves the tying up of fallopian tubes as a permanent method of contraception.

Around 4,000 trucks pass through the check posts every day, a third with forged documents provided by the "entry mafia" for Rs 3,500 a truck A rough estimate says the "entry mafia" has been causing an annual loss of over Rs. 300 crore to the exchequer through non-payment of taxes. Trucks plying with illegal coal and stone chips are allegedly provided forged documents and a code is written on the windscreen for smooth passage. Once the mafia is paid, the vehicles don't have to pay other taxes at the check posts or anywhere on National Highway 31.SP Lande came across the racket during surprise check on the NH-31 on 26 & 27 May 2012 in Kishanganj. The mafia had his network widespread to district not only in Bihar, but in the neighbouring state of West Bengal, as well.

None of the above-mentioned person took the postings they were offered after being shifted from Araria, except for Ram and were wanted between 2007 and 2009 in IAY cases filed at numerous police stations. Lande arrested then Jokihaat BDO Firoz Naim in 2007 from his Patna residence and mukhiya Imran Sadir, also from Patna, in connection with a Jokihaat police station case. The fraudulent took place in 2004 which amounts to Rs 40 Lakh. The case was registered in 2007 after a Central government report."

Shivdeep Wamanrao Lande is an IPS Officer of 2006 Batch. He is currently serving as Deputy Inspector General- Anti Narcotics Cell, Crime Branch-Mumbai in Maharashtra Police on Central deputation. Earlier, he served as the Superintendent of Police in Araria, Purnia and Munger districts of Bihar. His tenure as the SP of Patna (Central Region) was quite popular. He arrested many criminals and took action against offenders. Lande was popular as he took strict action against eve-teasers. Shivdeep Lande has been affectionately given many names such as ‘Dabbang’, ‘Singham’ and ‘The Supercop’ by the people.

Lande received his early education from Saraswati Vidya Mandir High School in his hometown Akola, and his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon in Maharashtra, India. Lande joined the Indian Police Services after completing his training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. Although he was first selected for Indian Revenue Services, later he joined the Indian Police Service in 2006.

Shivdeep Lande was born on 29 August 1976 in Akola district in the Vidarbha Area of Maharashtra in the year 1976. He was born in a Maharashtrian farmer's family. He married Mamta Shivtare on 2 February 2014, he has a daughter named Arhaa. Mamta Shivtare is the daughter of Vijay Shivtare who currently serves as the Minister of State For Water Resources And Water Conservation, and is also the Guardian Minister of Satara District in Maharashtra.