Maharashtra govt to press Centre for Chhota Rajan to be sent to Mumbai

Maharashtra government will pressthe Centre for gangster Chhota Rajan to send to Mumbai afterdeportation to the country as his questioning is expected toshed light on several cases he is linked toChhota Rajan is wanted in several cases in the stateSo we have decided that once he is deported and centralinvestigation agencies are done investigating him we willrequest the Centre to first send him here so that we canextract information from him in cases for which he iswanted here Minister of State for Home Rural Ram Shindetold PTIThe cases in which his involvement is alleged includemurder of journalist Jyotimoy DeyThe government is also planning to compile a list of casesin which Rajan is wanted so as to put him on trial after thegangster whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje issent to Mumbai where he has spent much of his underworld lifeThe case is being dealt by the Ministry of Home Affairsas it is a matter between the two countries If there is anextradition treaty between India and Indonesia he will bebrought back to the country Then on Maharashtra will comeinto the picture the official requesting anonymity saidUntil that happens we will compile and forward to theCentre the list of cases in which he is wanted so that he canbe tried under a court of law here he saidAccording to serving and former police officers who havedealt with the Mumbai underworld the arrest of Rajan is amajor development and his questioning is expected to shedlight on hitherto unknown facts related to cases linked to hissyndicate including his alleged role in murder of journalistJyotirmoy DeyHowever former Mumbai Police Commissioner M N Singh whohad played a key role in cracking down on underworld gangs inthe city said he would rather wait and watch till the55yerold gangster was brught back to the countryY P Singh IPSofficerturned politician termedRajans arrest as significant which will help investigatingagencies to bring out unknown facts about theunderworldpolicepolitcian nexusThe details of conspiracy behind the murder of J Dey on June 11 2011 which was executed allegedly at thebehest of Rajan and firing on another scribe in early 1990smay also come to fore if he is questioned he saidAlso police and other lawenforcing agencies could cometo know Rajans connections in the killings of his ownhirelings in India and abroad said a Crime Branch officerrequesting anonymityRecalling his days of action against the Mumbaiunderworld M N Singh said it has been over 15 years whenRajan was shot in September 2000 landing him in hospital Iwas Mumbai Police Commissioner then and along with HomeMinister Chhagan Bhujbal and the Additional Home Secretary Imet Foreign Minister Jaswant singh and requested him to send ateam of crime branch in BangkokJasawant Singhji accepted our request and I sent threecrime branch inspectors to keep a watch on Rajan so that hecould be arrested and deported Our officers stayed there forover a fortnight without any weapon and liasioning with localpolice and keeping a watchBut on a day news surfaced that Rajan had escaped from thehospital which was impossible without the support of thelocal police said SinghHe however claimed Rajans arrest unlikely to yieldimpressive results as underworld activities have almost dieddown and secondly he has become too old and sickSingh also said that Mumbai police crime branch shouldcome forward and ask for his custody as Mumbai police is theprime stakeholder in the cases registered against himSingh however is of the opinion that NIA and CBI canalso interrogate him to unravel his involvement ininternational syndicates or operatives