Yogesh Pratap Singh
Yogesh Pratap Singh (born 1959) is a former Indian police service officer who left to become a lawyer and activist in Mumbai.He directed the international award-winning film Kya Yahi Sach Hai (2010), a fictional account of corruption in the police force that is based on Singh's own experiences.[2] In December 1995 Singh, then a Superintendent of Police, investigated allegations of nepotism in the award of contracts for exploiting the Panna-Mukta oilfield and submitted a detailed report.Singh challenged these postings in the court, alleging that he was being targeted because of his investigations into the honest practices of senior officers and politicians.The entire unit (almost 600 men) were housed in a drab 136 acres (55 ha) campus which lacked modern amenities and enjoyed little or no funding from the State Government.Over the course of 4 years, starting in 1997, applying the concept of Shramdaan – that is donated labour from the men and inhabitants, tremendous infrastructure to support the welfare of constables was constructed.[11] It was publicly screened in Mumbai in December 2011 in an event attended by celebrities such as L. K. Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Maneka Gandhi, Vijay Goel, Anurag Thakur, Prakash Javadekar, Murli Deora, Rajeev Shukla and Jagdambika Pal.