ISBN: 9788170493204    Publisher: Manas Publications Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 272        Language: English

SK Datta, IPS, retired as Director of the CBI in 1993, has written his experiences for the benefit of readers, police personnel, politicians, professionals, journalists and also those in spiritual quest as beginners. In his 34-year career, his thinking mind focused on innovative ways. As SP of a district he saw inhuman treatment to dalits and became a champion for social justice, which he had already imbibed when as college student along with JN Dixit, former Foreign Secretary, he attended Gandhiji's Wardha Ashram camp and did manual cleaning in Wardha town. He handled and specially deputed a fingerprint expert to lift latent fingerprints of Chopra children as the main evidence in the infamous Billa Ranga case. He wrote in the Statesman in the seventies for launching mass identification programme, which is currently being followed. The gestation period between an idea and its implementation is too long in India.
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