A Mumbai Police Crime Branch team has now been sent to Bangkok to provide Thai authorities a certified copy of a charge sheet filed against Rajan by the CBI, in which the gangster has identified Jhingada as an Indian national from Mumbai, who led the attack on him.
In the latest development in the long-standing tussle between India and Pakistan over the custody of Dawood Ibrahim gang sharpshooter Syed Muzzakir Mudassar Hussain alias Munna Jhingada, who was arrested in Thailand and convicted for leading an attempt on rival gangster Chhota Rajan's life in Bangkok in September 2000, the Mumbai Police are now making a renewed attempt to get Jhingada extradited to India.
A Mumbai Police Crime Branch team has now been sent to Bangkok to provide Thai authorities a certified copy of a charge sheet filed against Rajan by the CBI, in which the gangster has identified Jhingada as an Indian national from Mumbai, who led the attack on him.
Jhingada is currently languishing in a Bangkok jail after serving an eight-year jail sentence. Both India and Pakistan had claimed Jhingada as their citizen, to secure his custody following the completion of his sentence in Thailand.
India has claimed that Jhingada had given Thai authorities a bogus Pakistani passport under the alias Mohammed Salim. When his sentence was nearing an end, Pakistani authorities had approached the Thai government to secure his custody and had produced bogus identity documents to back their claim of his Pakistani nationality, India has claimed.
On getting the wind of the move by Pakistan, the Indian embassy in Thailand had immediately stalled the extradition. The Mumbai Police were then asked to provide the proof of Jhingada's Indian nationality.
Following this, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch has provided a Bangkok court Jhingada's college leaving certificate from Ismail Yusuf College in Jogeshwari, and proof of his family's residential address from a slum in the same area. It has also provided translated copies of the FIRs registered against Jhingada in Mumbai along with his fingerprints and DNA samples of his mother and sister, collected in July 2014.
"We have sought Jhingada's custody so that he can be tried in cases he is wanted in India. Recently, the Bangkok police had sought documents related to Jhingada from us, which we have provided them. We are hopeful of getting Jhingada," said a senior Mumbai Police officer.
"In a statement, that is part of the charge sheet provided to the Thai authorities, Rajan has given details of his interactions with Jhingada in Mumbai when the later was still Dawood's deputy. He has also given an account of the attack on him in Bangkok by Jhingada after he had parted ways with Dawood. We believe this will bolster our case before the Thai authorities," said the officer.
Jhingada is wanted in Mumbai for dozens of crimes, including cases of murder, extortion and illegal possession of weapons.
Who is Munna Jhingada?
Jhingada, a resident of Jogeshwari (E), had first entered the world of crime after he stabbed to death a college student in 1990. He soon rose to the rank of a shooter for Dawood's close aide Chhota
Shakeel. Jhingada was arrested in 1997 from Santacruz in an illegal arms possession case and was released on bail in 1999. He then flew to Pakistan and was later assigned the task of killing Chhota Rajan in Bangkok.
While Rajan survived the attack, his right-hand man Rohit Verma was killed. Jhingada was then arrested by the Bangkok police in the said offence.
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