Chhota Rajan, the most-wanted gangster arrested in Bali after a two-decade chase, may have planned to escape to Zimbabwe, his interrogation has revealed.
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Police at Ngurah Rai Airport, in Denpasar, detained Nikalje on Sunday on an Interpol red notice.
On Tuesday, the Bali cops were not even addressing the man they arrested on Sunday last as Chhota Rajan. “We will coordinate with the Indian authorities to formulate on how to deport Chhota Rajan back to India”, he said.
Asked when Rajan would be brought to India, Rajnath said the CBI and other agencies were in touch with Indonesian authorities and “things were being worked out”.
“It (the arrest) is very, very important because after Dawood’s gang, his was the second most notorious and cruel gang”, former Mumbai police chief P.S Pasricha told an Indian TV station. Interpol flagging him as a hunted man back in 1995.
Till 1993, Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan were a deadly combination in Mumbai’s underworld.
Earlier, for a couple of hours on Monday, confusion reigned in top intelligence and police circles in Maharashtra with a few officials claiming that another serial killer from Karnataka, Mohan Kumar alias Cyanide Mohan, had been arrested. “We are making arrangements to bring him to India and pursue all criminal cases against him”.
Gangster Chota Rajan who was in the run since 1995, has finally been arrested in Bali, Indonesia.
If the agency fails to provide all the evidence, with documents, that Chhota Rajan is wanted in nearly twenty heinous cases in India within these twenty days, then as per the law he is at liberty to be a free man.
“This is a good and close cooperation between India, Australia and Indonesia”, the official added.
Nikalje, 55, is wanted in India on charges of murder, attempted murder, illegal weapons offences, conspiracy, and organised crime.
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Speaking to news channel “NDTV”, Bali Police Commissioner Reinhard Nainggolan confirmed that Rajan, the powerful aide-turned-rival of terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, repeatedly pleaded before the interrogators to free him as he wanted to go to Zimbabwe.
