Julio Ribeiro

Gopinath Munde once said he’d told cops to eliminate goons

The Maharashtra government was in too much of a hurry to pass an all-solutions-in-one security Act. Timely intervention puts a brake on it.

Supercop Julio Ribeiro on the Rohini Salian controversy.

The hounding of Sanjiv Bhatt and some other IPS officers shows what lengths the BJP’s prime ministerial aspirant from Gujarat will go to have his way

Locating the start-off points for Al Qaeda and Osama's murderous mission

The only way to win the war against terrorism is to get the people to understand who is the enemy

Thackeray has to modify his thought processes. Coarse humour and demagoguery cannot help retain his hold over followers unless the party performs.

Mumbai is not going the Chicago way, but politicians should stop remote-controlling the police

Julio Ribeiro, who has served as police chief in Mumbai and Punjab, earned the sobriquet of a supercop in the '80s. He spoke to Outlook on why the underworld has tightened its grip on the city. Excerpts:

The South is caught up in a complex web of views on sharing of river waters. The Cauvery issue has reached yet another flashpoint, but the states are embroiled in other disputes too.