| Director | Puneet Issar |
|---|---|
| Budget | ₹17 crore |
| Box office | ₹23.5 crore |
ACP Arjun Ranawat appears before the court by the Mumbai Police amidst uproar by ruling party activists who keep raising slogans against him. Ranawat is charged with 18 mass killings at the Chief Minister’s farmhouse. In court, he confesses to all the crimes and requests nothing but an immediate death sentence. The narrative then shifts to a flashback of how Arjun got to where he was.
Arjun and his friend Hyder Ali Khan serve as ACPs in the Mumbai Police. Arjun and Hyder are embarrassed after notorious gangster-turned-pimp Hakim Lukka, who is charged with 38 criminal offences, is acquitted by the Magistrate due to Lukka's counsel, Advocate Kulkarni, producing fabricated evidence before the court. The following night, Lukka and Arjun accidentally meet again after Arjun's jeep breaks down in an isolated place. In the ensuing altercation, Lukka and his henchmen are killed by Arjun. Following this, Arjun is summoned for a departmental inquiry chaired by Commissioner Samar Singh, where he is interrogated by his superiors. Arjun defends his actions, claiming Lukka’s killing was in self-defense. Commissioner Samar reports to Chief Minister Satyanarayan Joshi and justifies Arjun's actions, arguing that encounter killings are necessary to achieve a crime-free state. CM Joshi, an upright and straightforward politician known for a strong stance on law and order in the state, approves Samar’s request, leading to the formation of the Crime Control Squad within the Mumbai Police, placing Arjun at its helm.
Led by Arjun and Hyder, the police begin eliminating gangsters and terrorists in Mumbai through encounter killings, facing criticism from human rights activists and opposition leader Kashinath "Kashi" Trivedi and his brother Badrinath Trivedi, who are influenced by underworld don Zafar Supari. In the subsequent meeting, CM Joshi and Commissioner Samar defend the practice of encounter killings, informing Kashi and his associates that these actions would continue until the last gangster in Mumbai is eliminated. During that same meeting, Arjun humiliates Kashi. A rattled Kashi warns Arjun that CM Joshi's days are numbered, and that he will remove the Commissioner once he consolidates power as the new Chief Minister. He further threatens that Arjun will be summoned to his office daily to salute him. As Arjun leaves the meeting, he is confronted by media personnel. Arjun and Hyder inform the media that the days of Zafar Supari and his henchmen are numbered.
Kashinath convinces Zafar Supari that he can poach 9 out of 11 independent MLAs supporting the ruling party if Zafar Supari promises to meet his expenses. Kashi eventually topples the Joshi-led government and becomes the Chief Minister with Zafar Supari’s help. Commissioner Samar Singh is immediately transferred to Gadchiroli, a Naxal-prone area on the Andhra-Maharashtra border. The newly appointed Commissioner, Yeshwant Deshpande, is corrupt and loyal only to CM Kashinath and his money. However, this does not stop Arjun and his fellow officers in the encounter squad from continuing their action against gangsters and terrorists. Arjun and Hyder eliminate Yeda, a henchman of Zafar Supari, who had intruded into Arjun’s home to intimidate his mother and sister. Following this, enraged CM Kashi commands Commissioner Deshpande to immediately disband the encounter squad and bring Arjun and his team under control. Deshpande informs Kashi that disbanding the Crime Control Squad and removing Arjun from its helm is not feasible due to oversight by the Central Home Ministry and the Director General of Maharashtra Police. However, he tells Kashi that he can manage the transfer of Hyder, who acts as the eyes and ears of Arjun. Hyder handles the entire spy network for the police and is the backbone of Arjun; thus, with Hyder gone, it will be difficult for Arjun to take forward the operations of the Crime Control Squad. Consequently, he attempts to transfer Hyder, telling him that he doubts Hyder's loyalty to the country by taking up religious issues. Feeling hurt, Hyder lashes out at Deshpande and storms out of his office, announcing his resignation. He removes his belt and insignia and throws them altogether, along with his service gun, at Deshpande's desk, thereby embarrassing Deshpande. But Arjun brings this to the attention of the Director General of Maharashtra Police and convinces him to reinstate Hyder in the squad.
Later, Deshpande advises Kashi to retrieve a file from Arjun that implicates corrupt politicians in collusion with Zafar Supari. The next day, Arjun is summoned to CM's office. He presents the file, which Kashi promptly burns. However, Arjun reveals that copies have already been sent to the Central Home Ministry, the President’s office, and the Prime Minister’s office. Enraged, Zafar Supari arrives in Mumbai and traps Hyder and his colleagues at the Old Jassai Railway Yard, using RDX to destroy the area. Hyder destroys the RDX and nearly kills Zafar Supari, but is fatally shot in the back by Inspector Avasthi, who has been bribed by Zafar Supari, Kashi and Deshpande. Zafar Supari brutally murders Hyder. Commissioner Deshpande falsely accuses Hyder of aiding the underworld as an ISI agent, presenting forged documents to the media to support this claim. During Hyder’s burial outside a mosque, Arjun receives a phone call from Zafar Supari, the contents of which remain unknown.
The narrative returns to the present-day courtroom. After the events involving Arjun, Samar Singh, who has a legal background, resigns from the police force to become Arjun’s lawyer. Justice Acharya is conducting the court proceedings. During the trial, Arjun’s colleagues in the police force unanimously testify in his and Hyder’s favor, collectively accusing Deshpande and Kashi of corruption and betrayal.