Credit: Reuters
Mumbai: The officials of CBI arrived at city police headquarters to meet Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed on Friday, a day after Maharashtra government decided to hand over all cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan to the central agency.
The CBI officials, who arrived at the police headquarters at Crawford Market, are also likely to meet their senior counterparts from police to discuss matters concerning the documents of cases and other material related to the gangster, which are in possession of the local police, sources said.
“The city police will hand over all the concerned documents, materials, evidences gathered against Rajan in all the cases to the CBI,” a police official said.
A crime branch official said that since the state government has transfered all the cases against the 55-year-old don to CBI, the city police will have no role in investigating him.
However, local police have to assist CBI if the agency asks them to, given the complicated nature of cases, some of them dating back to 1980s, since they are well-versed in the topography of the city and Rajan’s crime network, another official said.
In an intriguing development ahead of Rajan’s return on Thursday night, the state government announced that all the cases against Rajan, who was deported from Indonesia, were being transferred to the CBI because of its expertise in “handling transnational crimes”.
Mumbai Police has nearly 70 cases registered against Rajan, including 20 of murder, four cases under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, one under Prevention of Terrorism Act and over 20 cases under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
After being on the run for the past 27 years, underworld don Rajan was deported to New Delhi early today from Indonesia by a joint team headed by CBI officials for facing trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling against him in Delhi and Mumbai.
Ahead of his arrival in India, Maharashtra government made a surprise announcement of handing over all the cases related to the underworld don to the CBI as the agency had expertise in handling such cases. This move comes barely a few days after the state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had been making claims that Rajan will be brought only to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra government’s sudden U-turn raised many eyebrows within the police establishment in the megalopolis as the chief minister himself had ordered setting up of a special cell inside Arthur Road prison.
Rajan, after his arrest, had expressed reservation over plans to lodge him in a Mumbai jail, fearing that Dawood may target him there.
Rajan had told reporters in Bali that “some in the Mumbai police” have links with Dawood. “The Mumbai police has done a lot of ‘atyachar’ [atrocities] on me,” he had alleged.
Rajan was arrested on the basis of an Interpol Red Corner notice at Bali airport on October 25 on his arrival from Australia.
Immediately after his flight took off, Indian Ambassador to Indonesia Gurjit Singh tweeted: “#ChotaRajan deported successfully to India. Delay due to Bali airport closure ends. Thanks Indonesia for support.”
Rajan is wanted in over 75 crimes ranging from murder, extortion to smuggling and drug trafficking.
Mumbai Police has nearly 70 cases registered against Rajan, including 20 of murder, four cases under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, one under Prevention of Terrorism Act and over 20 cases under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
Delhi Police has six cases registered against Rajan, who was a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood at one point but parted ways before the 1993 Mumbai blasts were conspired.
In 2000, there was an attempt on Rajan’s life when Dawood’s men tracked him down to a hotel in Bangkok but he managed a dramatic escape by jumping from the first floor of the hotel.
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