Mumbai : It was relief at last for encounter specialist police sub-inspector Dayanand Nayak after nearly six and a half years, when he was re-instated on June 16, Saturday. He is now posed in the local arms wing of the police department.

Nayak was suspended from service in January 2006 in a disproportionate assets case and was subsequently arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau. Later in 2009, the then DGP had refused permission to prosecute Nayak on the ground of lack of sufficient evidences and his case sent to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

A 1995 batch police officer, Nayak was famous as encounter specialist as he has to his credit the killing of as many as 80 criminals in encounters. But the allegations of his owning disproportionate assets proved deterrent to his career. When he inaugurated a school worth Rs 2 crore at his hometown in a village in Karkala, there was an allegation that the proceeds from corruption were used towards the school building construction. Though Nayak had produced a list of donors, even then there was the allegation that some of the names were fake.