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Fiction: Passion turns to peril when an untimely death threatens to implicate a policeman in murder
An excerpt from 'Police Affairs: Beyond the Call of Duty', by Amit Lodha
Amit Lodha
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This IPS officer went from being an indifferent IIT student to (not) studying for the civil services
An excerpt from 'Life in the Uniform: Adventures of an IPS Officer in Bihar' by Amit Lodha.
Amit Lodha
· Mar 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm
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