A plot, allegedly planned by Dawood Ibrahim, to bump off underworld don Chhota Rajan, who is currently locked up in Tihar Jail, was foiled, after Intel came to know of the conspiracy, The Times of India reported.
A plot, allegedly planned by Dawood Ibrahim, to bump off underworld don Chhota Rajan, who is currently locked up in Tihar Jail, was foiled, after Intel came to know of the conspiracy, The Times of India reported.
According to the report, the crime was supposed to be committed by Delhi’s top gangster Neeraj Bawana at the insistence of D Company. The report added that the plan got busted after one of Bawana’s aides boasted about the plot to another associate during what was described as drunken banter. This was picked up by the agencies which brought it to the notice of all stakeholders involved in Rajan's security.
Currently, Bawana and Rajan are in Jail Number 2 of Tihar jail, but are in different cells. Following the intelligence report, Bawana has been shifted into an isolated cell.
Rajan has been lodged in Tihar, and not in jails in Mumbai or Maharashtra, because officials felt it would be difficult for Dawood Ibrahim and his network to get to their target in the highly secure Delhi prison.
In 2015, Rajan was arrested in Bali on the basis of a Red Corner Notice from Interpol and following a tip off by Australian authorities to the police in Indonesia. In the absence of an extradition treaty, the Indian authorities have already provided documents to their Indonesian counterparts about Rajan's Indian identity to facilitate his deportation. The sources said Rajan was in touch with various police officials for last six months seeking a passage to return to India as he feared for his life in Australia from Chhota Shakeel, a henchman of Dawood.
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.
Mumbai-born Rajan, once a close confidant-turned-rival of underworld gang lord Dawood, has said that he is not afraid of Dawood, the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. Rajan was arrested on a Red Corner notice by Interpol after eluding law enforcement agencies for over two decades. Out of these 75 cases, Rajan is facing four cases under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), one under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and over 20 cases under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
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