Mumbai police fail to produce gangster: HC wants explanation

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday asked the Mumbai Police to explain the reasons for not producing an inter-state gangster before it despite warrants issued by it in a seven-year-old extortion case here.
    
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Sanjeev Jain also issued a fresh production warrant against Brijesh Singh for June three after the Mumbai Police failed to produce him in the court on Saturday.
    
The court had on April four issued the production warrant against Singh for today.
    
"The Mumbai police is hereby directed to file a report in the case for not producing the gangster despite repeated production warrants," the CMM said in his order.
    
Singh is lodged in the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai in connection with his alleged role in the JJ Hospital shooting case registered there.
    
The court had on several occasions issued production warrants against him in connection with the extortion case registered here in the year 2001, but the Mumbai police has failed to produce Singh before it.
    
Singh, who allegedly worked for the Dawood gang in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, is suspected to have international links. He was on the run for over two decades and was living in Orissa for the last two years.
    
Singh, wanted in as many as 24 cases, carried a cash reward of Rs five lakh on his head and was arrested by the Special Cell sleuths of the Delhi Police from Bhubaneswar on January 24 this year.