Lakshmi Narayan Nehru’s dad, Gangadhar, served in for the East India Company as a copyist in Delhi in the early years of the 19th century.
In the court of Mughal leader Bahadur Shah II, Gangadhar was appointed as the Kotwal of Delhi.
Gangadhar Nehru was an Indian cop who, until the role was annulled during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, served in as the last kotwal of Delhi in the court of Bahadur Shah II.