The Australian Attorney General raised the issue of death penalty provision in Indian law and sought clarification on it to which the Indian side explained that the provision is used in the rarest of rare case.
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The capture of Chhota Rajan is being seen as a master stroke by Ajit Doval because his capture will act as a deterrent for other underworld gangs.
Chhota Rajan, 55, operated from Chembur and surroundings from the mid-1970s when he became a trusted henchman of Dawood, India’s most wanted don who is reportedly hiding in Pakistan.
Underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan, arrested in Indonesia’s Bali, has asked his interrogators to let him flee to Zimbabwe, a report said on Wednesday.
According to security agencies, Rajan will be brought back to India soon for further questioning as the Indian government may exercise a recently-signed pact with Indonesia that allows deportation of criminals from both countries based on court warrant.
Two of the eight cases against Chhota Rajan are registered with the Crime Branch police of Ahmedabad.
Government agencies might be taking all the credit for capturing Chhota Rajan, but there are a few who say that the “infamous gangster” actually surrendered.
“We should not forget that Mumbai Police had got successful conviction of gangster Abu Salem in the 1995 murder of builder Pradip Jain”, he told PTI. The Interpol in Australia had tipped off the Indonesian authorities of a potential murderer travelling in a Garuda flight en-route to Bali.
They said agencies are working on more than one plan to bring back Rajan, once known as Dawood’s right hand man, factoring various permutations and combinations.
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It was only when he assaulted a police constable during a crackdown, he caught the eye of underworld don Rajan Nair alias Bada Rajan, who took him under his wing. “We never knew where he was”, said Kharat. In September 2000, there was an attempt on his life when terrorist and his once-time boss Dawood Ibrahim’s men tracked him down to a hotel in Bangkok but he managed to escape with injuries. He held an Indian passport when he arrived in Denpasar, about 968 kilometers (602 miles) east of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
