Hasan Gafoor

Indian police commissioner
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Quick Facts

IntroIndian police commissioner
A.K.A.Khaja Hasan Gafoor
A.K.A.Khaja Hasan Gafoor
PlacesIndia
wasPolice officer
Work fieldLaw
Gender
Male
Birth11 December 1950, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Death12 March 2012Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (aged 61 years)
The details

Biography

Hasan Gafoor (11 December 1950 – 12 March 2012) was the Director General of Police of Maharashtra (Anti Corruption bureau). Previously he was the Director General of Police of Maharashtra and managing director of the Maharashtra Police Housing & Welfare Corporation. He was the Police Commissioner of Mumbai, but was promoted as an aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Prior to being the Police Commissioner, he was the Additional Director General, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) between 15 June 2007 and 29 February 2008. Gafoor is a 1974 batch IPS officer, and was the second Muslim to become the police chief of Mumbai after Syed Majeedullah, who was the Police Commissioner from 1962 to 1965.

Hasan Gafoor was indicted in Pradhan commission report on lack of leadership during the Mumbai terror attacks. Hasan Gafoor died of a heart attack in the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, on 12 March 2012.

Incidents

During his tenure as Police Commissioner of Mumbai the following events took place:

  1. 2008 anti-North Indian violence in Maharashtra
  2. 2008 Ahmedabad bombings
  3. Rahul Raj encounter
  4. November 2008 Mumbai attacks
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