The departmental inquiry against a sweeper, who did not exactly belong to the police department, finally came to an end on Thursday, June 6, with his reinstatement. Mohan Solanki, 44, who worked as a sweeper at the Dadar police station was taken back into service by Police Commissioner Sanjay Barve. The order came after Solanki faced seven years of an internal probe, and was subsequently dismissed in January 2017.

Solanki, a civil employee, was charged in 2010 for "illegal occupation" of a shanty inside the police station premises. He had challenged this abrupt departmental action at the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT), and had also decided to fight the directives that asked him to vacate the shanty that he had lived in for decades.