Gig workers said the festive incentives offered by platforms were a familiar tactic to dilute collective action rather than address long-standing grievances.

Sadanand Date, 1990-batch IPS officer and former NIA chief, is now Maharashtra DGP. He won the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Stacks of cash worth more than Rs 5 crore, a suitcase full of jewellery – both gold and diamond – worth Rs 8.8 crore, and a bag full of cheque books and documents related to properties worth Rs 35 crores have been recovered from a house in Delhi.