Review: Operation Bazooka by Rajesh Pandey and Rakesh Goswami
Operation Bazooka is a story of many firsts. The first use of an AK-47 for a crime in Lucknow, the setting up of India’s first electronic surveillance unit and the creation of UP’s first Special Task Force (STF). An aerial view of a part of Lucknow in a picture dated 24 February 1999. (HT Photo by Subhamkar) In the late 1990s, Shriprakash Shukla was a name that evoked terror in the streets of Lucknow and later in the northern heartland. Shukla was a young, flamboyant and fearless killer, always attacking in…