Mumbai Confidential: Hard at work

Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani, who recently retired, worked till about 10 pm even on his last day in office. With Friday being his last working day, a stream of visitors kept pouring into his second floor office till about 6.30 pm. Incidentally, April 29 was also Kakani’s 60th birthday.

Staff crunch

Anti-terrorism squad (ATS) chief Vineet Agarwal has repeatedly been writing to the state government about his department facing a crunch of top officers, replacements for whom have not been provided yet. In the recent round of transfers, additional commissioner of police Nishit Mishra was promoted as IG and posted in the ATS while DCP Paramjit Dahiya was promoted and posted as DIG in the department. These officers will take charge once the transfers come into effect after the Eid bandobast is over. At present, a DCP-rank officer is holding several charges.