Underworld don Chhota Rajan on Monday claimed that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan and their ISI is helping India’s most wanted criminal in hiding there. Chhota Rajan also said that he has always fought against Dawood and will continue to do so.
Chhota Rajan made this claim to reporters when he was being taken to meet the Central Bureau of Investigation and Mumbai Police team in Bali where he was arrested.
Chhota Rajan being taken to the room where Indian officials are with Indonesian officials. pic.twitter.com/L1W90x3AEr
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Rajan was a close aide of Dawood at one point but they split after 1993 Mumbai blasts. Rajan was nabbed at Bali airport on his arrival from Australia on October 25.
The visit of the joint team of CBI and Mumbai and Delhi police officers comes two days after India wrote a letter to the Indonesian authorities for 55-year-old Rajan’s return to face trial in various criminal cases registered against him. Rajan was nabbed at Bali airport on his arrival from Australia on October 25. The team, which had left India in the early hours on Sunday, has been provided security by Indonesian and Delhi Police commandos.
On Sunday, First Secretary (Consular) Sanjeev Kumar Agrawal at the Indian embassy in Jakarta met Rajan for nearly half-an-hour at the detention centre, sources said. This is for the first time an Indian official met him in prison. Agrawal flew to Bali from Jakarta and drove straight to the police centre for his meeting with Rajan, one of India’s most-wanted criminals.
The consular access to Rajan comes two days after the Indonesian police submitted a report to the Indian Embassy about Rajan’s detention.
When Rajan was arrested at the Bali airport, he was carrying an Indian passport with the assumed name Mohan Kumar. Indian Ambassador to Indonesia Gurjit Singh had said on Friday that the process relating to Rajan’s deportation to India has already begun but there is no deadline for it.
Security of the Indian officials as well as that of Rajan has been enhanced due to the high threat perception to Rajan from rival gangs, most notably of Dawood Ibrahim. The Indian team is accompanied by elite commandos of Special Cell of Delhi Police.
(with agency inputs)