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Her name is Meeran Chadha Borwankar. A minister sat across a table from her and ordered her to hand over three acres of police land to a private bidder. She said no. He lost his temper and hurled the map across the glass table between them. She stood up, saluted him, and walked out. She joined the Indian Police Service in 1981, at a time when a woman in a police uniform in India was almost a curiosity. She went on to become the first woman to head the Mumbai crime branch, and the first woman to lead the Pune police. In 2010, soon after she took charge in Pune, she was told to complete the handover of a valuable piece of police land in the heart of the city. The land had already been auctioned off to a private bidder before her time. She was expected to simply sign it away. She looked at it and refused. The land, she said, was needed for the police themselves, for their offices and for homes for the constables and their families, the men and women who guard the city and often cannot afford to live in it. Handing it to a builder, she said plainly, would look like the new commissioner had sold herself out. The minister overruled her and told her the matter was closed. She told him, gently and finally, that she would not do it. The map came flying across the table. She saluted, and left. It cost her. The posting she wanted did not come. But she wrote to the government demanding the whole deal be cancelled, and she kept fighting until the land was returned to the police, where it belonged. Years later, the bidder who had been due to receive that land was named as an accused in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country. She had no way of knowing that at the time. She simply refused to hand over what was not hers to give.