Sergeant Desai is a non-canonical character created for the ITV 2006 adaptation of Sleeping Murder. He is a sergeant in the Indian traffic police. At the beginning of the episode, he comes to Government House in Delhi to tell Kelvin Halliday that his wife's car had plunged into a gorge from a bridge. That scene was in 1933. The event sets the scene for the rest of the story which is set post war around 1952. Sergeant Desai is portrayed by Emilio Doorgasingh.
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