D Sivanandhan

The writer is a retired Director General of Police, Maharashtra & former Commissioner of Police, Mumbai.

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In Delhi blast, ‘White Collar’ terrorist is the new red flagSubscriber Only

November 13,2025 07:21:20 AM

We knew that terror outfits target unemployed, vulnerable young men and women who would be radicalised and trained. But, now, if middle-aged people with regular jobs are being radicalised, our agencies will have to put all their efforts into identifying such people.

Thu, Nov 13, 2025

Mohammad Shariful Islam Shahzad, the prime accused in the Saif Ali Khan attack case being taken to Bandra court from Khar Police station on Sunday. (Express Photo: Ganesh Shirshekar)

Days after attack on actor Saif Ali Khan, questions that remain unansweredSubscriber Only

January 19,2025 14:31:15 PM

Thane Police have detained a suspect in the incident who is currently being questioned. In the meantime, why was Khan taken to the hospital in an autorickshaw and how did the suspect enter and leave the building undetected?

Mon, Jan 20, 2025

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Not the bad old days in MumbaiSubscriber Only

November 01,2024 09:12:20 AM

It is naive to term Baba Siddique’s killing as the underworld’s resurrection. If tackled effectively, it can be kept to a one-off incident

Fri, Nov 01, 2024

Baba Siddique killing: How we dealt with Dawood Ibrahim gang, others — and lessons for Mumbai Police todaySubscriber Only

October 28,2024 14:23:58 PM

Even though Baba Siddique’s killing has all the signs of a gangland killing, it is naïve to term it as the resurrection of the underworld. It is at most a possible start to something sinister, but, if it is tackled effectively and on time, it can be reduced to a one-off incident

Mon, Oct 28, 2024

Special to the Express | Calls to Pakistan & a plan to target Thackeray’s Matoshree: How Mumbai Police cracked IC814 hijacking caseSubscriber Only

September 05,2024 04:20:49 AM

Hemant Karkare's tip-off led police to shady money exchange in hotel, arrests cracked case wide open -- a rivetting account by former top officer D Sivanandhan who steered the operation.

Thu, Sep 05, 2024

Authorities have failed them. Arm women doctors with stun-gunsSubscriber Only

August 16,2024 18:46:58 PM

If there is to be an effective change in the country’s fight against the violence that doctors, including women doctors, encounter, then it is time to arm them with techniques, methods and means to defend themselves

Sat, Aug 17, 2024

The government was quick to respond to the situation and has constituted a high-level inquiry committee to find out what had happened and what went wrong. (PTI)

Parliament attacks have exposed shameful lack of security preparednessSubscriber Only

December 13,2023 19:29:04 PM

That it occurred on the same day as the previous deadly attack on Parliament in 2001 only underlines this. Heads should roll and clear responsibility and accountability need to be fixed for the security breach

Fri, Dec 15, 2023

Out of all the attacks, the 26/11 terror attacks were the only attacks in which there was intelligence available that our country, and especially Mumbai, was vulnerable to a sea-bound terror attack. (Express file photo)

In cyber attacks, terror has a found a new faceSubscriber Only

November 26,2023 13:30:31 PM

A terror attack like 26/11 is unlikely to be repeated. Instead, cyber warfare is the reality which governments and police must accept and take measures against

Wed, Nov 29, 2023

How a 16-foot yacht points to nation’s vulnerability to a terror attackSubscriber Only

August 24,2022 18:49:38 PM

D Sivanandhan writes: Luckily, the unmanned boat that drifted to Maharashtra from the Gulf of Oman posed no danger. But how did it elude Indian Navy, Coast Guard and the police?

Thu, Aug 25, 2022

D Sivanandhan writes: The powerful and ubiquitous EDSubscriber Only

August 01,2022 18:46:04 PM

D Sivanandhan writes | ED's prominence points to a shift: Central agencies have grown more powerful, state and city police are pale shadows of themselves

Tue, Aug 02, 2022

Corruption has shattered the reputation of Mumbai policeSubscriber Only

September 04,2021 04:38:11 AM

D Sivanandhan writes: Once touted as a force second only to Scotland Yard, it’s a mere shadow of its former self.

Sun, Sep 05, 2021