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Suhas Gokhale: Honest Cop Acquitted After 4-Years of Fake Charges

Team MDO by Team MDO
July 25, 2019
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The Maharashtra Police had arrested one of their own “honest” police officers in May 2015, a day before he was to retire. We use the term “honest” as most national newspapers that reported this story has prefixed this adjective before his name.

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TOI, May 2015

Inspector Suhas Gokhale, senior inspector (Anti Narcotic Cell: Azad Maidan unit) :

  • Served the police force for 30-years, of which he spent 14-years in a state of partial paralysis after being injured in the line of duty
  • May 2015: On the day of his retirement parade, Gokhale, and four others were arrested in Mumbai, in front of fellow officers, on charges of helping a drug kingpin
  • Despite pleading to be allowed to at least attend his retirement parade, he was not permitted to do so and arrested at midnight
  • They had been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act alleging association with drug peddler Shashikala alias Baby Patankar
  • Despite the court, while granting him bail, said there was no evidence against Gokhale, the senior inspector was tortured for four long years
  • March 2019: The case fell after a second forensic report in March this year confirmed that the drug found was Monosodium glutamate (MSG) colloquially called ‘ajinomoto’ and not Mephedrone
  • July 2019: The Mumbai Crime Branch has dropped all charges against five policemen

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Gokhale has breathed a sigh of relief yet does not consider this as a sign of victory in any manner. Speaking with Mumbai Mirror, senior acquitted cop said:

In law, there is a maxim ‘justice delayed is justice denied. They have exonerated me after four years and two months for an offence I never committed. How can I claim I got justice?

While adding how this arrest and charges will have a lifelong impact on his 30-year-long service, he said,

It took them two lines to say they found no evidence against me. I was due for retirement the day after. All I asked them to do was wait till I was given my farewell, but they did not listen.

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We completely agree with Mr Gokhale that this acquittal after four years means nothing. Who is responsible for tarnishing his image for life? Does reputation mean nothing? After serving as a police officer for nearly three decades, did he deserve such a treatment, especially when court cited no evidence against him in 2015 itself.
Today when his acquittal story has been reported by Mainstream media, Gokhale’s son, Saket, has poured out his heart via his Facebook post. He calls his Father :
My Hero – A man who they tried to crush mercilessly and failed.
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Full Text Written By Saket Gokhale

“Important and DEEPLY personal (apologies if it’s long)

My father is my hero – a man who they tried to crush mercilessly and failed.

My father, Suhas Gokhale, was arrested on the evening before his retirement in May 2015. He had finished his day’s work on the last day of his 30-year-service and was looking forward to his retirement parade the next day – a day that is a landmark for every officer in uniform. And it was an especially poignant moment for my father who served 14 years of those 30 years in a state of partial paralysis after being injured in the line of duty.

On orders of the CM, they arrested him at midnight. When his fellow officers were at the retirement parade, he was taken to court for his remand and put into jail. He kept pleading that he be allowed to attend his parade and to arrest him after that but they said no. The directions from “saheb” in New Delhi were clear – don’t let him have a graceful retirement.

After that, they tortured him for 4 years. Despite the court (while granting him bail) stating that there was no evidence against him, the “nationalist who seeks-votes-in-the-name-of-our-uniformed-personnel” kept persecuting him for 4 years. They tarnished his reputation, jailed him, persecuted him, and put him into a place where he started suffering from hypertension and other ailments. And all through these 4 years, I saw him constantly repeating and saying “Saket, I have done no wrong. For 30 years I’ve defended my country and my Constitution. What did I do to deserve this?” Watching him constantly pleading his innocence was spirit-crushing.

Today, after 4 years, the Mumbai Crime Branch has submitted in court that my father was innocent and there was no evidence against him. 4 fucking years. They have now told the court that all charges are being dropped against him.

This is victory, and yet, an entirely heart-breaking moment. The Modi-Fadnavis BJP government tried very hard to crush the spirits of a decorated officer and tortured him for 4 years but couldn’t find a single stain on him.

My father was due to receive a meritorious service medal on his retirement day. Also his promotion came on the day of his retirement which was immediately taken away from him.

Four years of persecution and they couldn’t crush him. Four years of constantly pleading your innocence. Four years of looking at the uniform and the tricolor that you proudly served for 3 decades and paying the price for being a “secular officer” (which is a slur in New India) and for taking on the filthy politicians who have ruined this nation.

My father’s service of 3 decades to the nation stands validated today. His innocence, which he pleaded for 4 years, stands validated today. They tried to crush him. Yet they couldn’t.

A paralyzed decorated officer won today against the combined force of the system of “New India”. His honesty won against their bigotry.

We fought for 4 years but, honestly, this “victory” means nothing. It destroyed my father and our family. It drained out every drop of blood from our souls. After serving the nation for 3 decades, I saw my father (who had proudly ironed his crisp uniform for his retirement parade) finally break down and weep like a child. He lived a living death for 4 years constantly proclaiming his innocence. The bastards finally relented after a fight that took away everything from us.

My dad will never get back his retirement parade. He will never get the joy of seeing his 30 year career culminate with full honors. He lost his promotion, his medals, and his honor was tarnished.

In this lifetime, my father didn’t get to wear his beloved uniform and tricolor on the last day of his service. He still says that in another lifetime, he would choose to be an officer and serve the people and the country again. He says he wouldn’t do anything differently.

The edifice of India’s politics is built on the graves and cries of such officers. No one speaks a word for them. Be it a Sanjiv Bhatt, be it the cop shot by gau rakshaks in Bulandshahr, or be it the officer crushed by the sand mafia – they only remain named soon to be forgotten.

The truth won today but it took a long fucking 4 years to raise its head. Four years and an officer’s honor snatched away from him only because he fought the system headed by a man who claims to have a 56” chest.

Attached here are 3 pics:

One is the news from today announcing his innocence.

The second is a news from 2015 announcing his arrest. Ironically, even the news headline reporting his arrest referred to him as an “honest cop” even when announcing that he was being arrested. That was my dad’s reputation. Mr. Honest. Mr. Clean. What was it all worth? Fuckall.

3. The third is of my father as a young officer in his first year of service – determined, passionate, and unaware of the fact that, 3 decades later, he would be denied his retirement for standing up to the system.

I’m proud of you, old man. Your honesty, your righteousness, your burning passion to fight against injustice, and your resilience.

For me, you’ll always be my officer and my gentleman ❤

Thanks to each one of you and those honest reporters and journalists in the media who supported us and believed in my dad’s innocence when this happened. It kept us alive and it kept my father’s spirits from being crushed. I’ll forever be indebted to all of you.”

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