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{{Short description|IPS Officer}}{{Distinguish|Aftab Ahmad Khan}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Aftab Ahmed Khan
| employer = [[Indian Police Service]]
}}
'''Aftab Ahmed Khan''' '''IPS''' is a [[Indian Police Service]] officer, turned [[politician]] from [[Mumbai]], [[India]], noted for his [[encounter killings]] of gangsters from the Mumbai organized crime syndicates. He is also known as the founder of [[Anti-Terrorism Squad|Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS)]] in 1990, inspired from the [[SWAT|Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons & Tactics (SWAT)]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Anti-Terrorism Squad: Unsung Heroes Of Indian Counter-Terrorism|url=http://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/28798-the-anti-terrorism-squad-unsung-heroes-of-indian-counter-terrorism.html|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.mensxp.com|language=en}}</ref>

== Early life and background ==
His father Dr. A.S. Khan had been a noted Public Prosecutor in undivided [[Hyderabad State]] and then in [[Bombay State]], practising at the Aurangabad Sessions Court and the High Court.

== Career ==
An officer of the [[Indian Police Service]], Khan was a [[Deputy inspector general of police|Deputy Inspector General of Police]] in [[Maharashtra]] state in the 1980s. He shot into fame with the [[1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout|shootout]] at the [[Lokhandwala Complex]], [[Andheri]], in which seven gangsters including [[Maya Dolas]] and [[Dilip Buwa]] were killed in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rahman|first=M.|title=Meet Aftab Ahmed Khan, the cop who leads from the front|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/crime/story/19911215-at-head-of-slain-gangster-stood-aftab-ahmed-khan-additional-commissioner-of-police-bombay-815235-1991-12-15|orig-date=December 15, 1991|date=September 5, 2013|access-date=2020-10-06|publisher=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

Khan was commissioned as an [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] officer in 1963 in the Maharashtra Cadre. He served as SDPO (DySP) of Junnar and Baramati, Addl. SP (HQ) of [[Ahmednagar District]], Addl. SP (Town) [[Nashik]], Deputy Commandant of SRPF Group II at Pune, SP of [[Satara District]] (1973–74), DCP of [[Mumbai Police Detection Unit]] (1974–76), Commandant of Group VIII at Mumbai (1976-1978), SP of [[Amravati District]] (1978-1980), SSP of [[Thane District]] in which capacity he was involved in the raising of the Thane Commissionerate as Addl. Commissioner (I) in the rank of SSP and later DIG (1980-1984), DIG (Sector Commander) of CRPF on deputation in Punjab (1984–86), Joint Director of IB (Haryana) in 1986-87 on Central Deputation, Addl. CP of [[Mumbai Police|Mumbai Police Crime Branch]] (1987-1989), DIG (State Intelligence Bureau) (1989–90), Addl. CP (North) (1990-1993) and Jt. Cp (Crime) (1993-1995) of [[Mumbai Police]]. He retired 2 years prematurely as ADG (Training) of [[Maharashtra Police]] in 1997.<ref name=indexp>
{{cite news
|title="Mr Controversy" seeks a clean ticket
|author=S Hussain Zaidi
|publisher=[[Indian Express]]
|url=http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19980205/03650824.html
|date=1998-02-05
|accessdate=2007-05-23
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604232950/http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19980205/03650824.html
|archivedate=4 June 2007
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-08|title=The Dirty Harrys of Mumbai are a vanishing breed|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/national/the-dirty-harrys-of-mumbai-are-a-vanishing-breed-759875.html|access-date=2020-10-06|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, Khan sought to build on his media image by joining politics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dixit|first=Nikhil|date=2014-02-09|title=Politics is no easy task for police officers|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-politics-is-no-easy-task-for-police-officers-1960350|access-date=2020-10-06|website=DNA India|language=en}}</ref> Initially expressing interest in joining the [[Samajwadi Party]], he eventually went with the [[Janata Dal]], with whom he stood elections in the Mumbai North-west constituency in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-18|title=Aftab Ahmed Khan- The Super Cop|url=https://indraidu.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/aftab-ahmed-khan-the-super-cop/|access-date=2020-10-06|website=INDRA|language=en}}</ref>

Currently he helps run a private security agency that he set up in 1996 along with his son.<ref name=rediff>
{{cite news
| title = Meet the man behind the Lokhandwala shootout
| author = Syed Firdaus Ashraf
| publisher = rediff.com
| url = http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2007/may/22khan.htm
| date = 2007-05-22
| accessdate = 2007-05-24
}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In 2007, producer [[Apoorva Lakhia]] directed the [[Bollywood]] [[crime film]] ''[[Shootout at Lokhandwala]]'', which was based on the [[1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout]] led by Aftab Ahmed Khan. Khan was also portrayed in the film as Additional Police Commissioner Shamsher Khan played by [[Sanjay Dutt]]. He himself appeared as Commissioner Krishnamurthy in the film as well.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 16, 2007|first=Mark |last=Manuel|title=Killer Khan! |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/Killer-Khan/articleshow/2050776.cms|access-date=2020-10-06|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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