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Did Chhota Rajan surrender to protect himself from Dawood? Government agencies might be taking all the credit for capturing Chhota Rajan, but if sources in Mumbai Police are to be believed, the infamous gangster was the architect of his own arrest. After more than two decades on the run from the authorities and his arch rival and former
crime boss, Dawood Ibrahim, advancing age and the need to constantly look over his shoulder got to Rajan (55), and he decided to turn himself in, claimed officials from the Crime
Branch. The Home Ministry confirmed yesterday that Rajan alias Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje had been arrested at Bali airport by the Indonesian police, acting on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol. The official version is that the arrest was made on a tip-off by the police in Australia,
where Rajan had been living for years. However, a Crime Branch official said Rajan had planned the whole operation and had, in fact, tipped off the authorities himself.
Paranoia At 55, age had started to catch up with the gangster, who is suffering from kidney-related issues, as well as problems with the bullet injury he had received in an attack in 2000. The bigger problem though, was paranoia. “Rajan’s aides Santosh Shetty, Anil Chandra and
Bunty Pandey were all deported from various foreign countries. Rajan was a very vulnerable target living all alone. Dawood’s aide, Chhota Shakeel, even tried to kill him in Australia in July,
but the Indian intelligence agencies intimated him about the attack after they learnt of it by tapping Shakeel’s phone,” said a police officer. During interrogations of his men, the police learnt that Rajan felt this vulnerability keenly and saw threats in every corner. “Rajan is extremely paranoid. He
killed J Dey (mid-day journalist) thinking he was tipping off Shakeel. Rajan killed Farid Tanasha, his own man, under the same belief. He killed several persons just because he doubted
Who is the Punjab’s new DGP Suresh Arora?
Badal govt replaces police chief Sumedh Saini with Suresh Arora amid sacrilege row CHANDIGARH Amid unrest and unending protests over growing incidents of sacrilege in Punjab and killing of two Sikhs in Faridkot by police, the ruling Akali Dal-BJP government on Sunday removed its police chief Sumedh Singh Saini. Saini was replaced by his batchmate and Vigilance Bureau (VB) director Suresh Arora, a
1982-batch IPS officer. When asked about if he himself opted out to remain as the DGP or was told to be removed,
he did not wish to offer any comments. Arora was also not reachable for any comments. Saini, who was appointed
as DGP in 2012 when the SAD-BJP had resurged to power for the second consecutive term, had superseded at least four senior IPS officers and three of his batch-mates. As many as 112 torn pages of the Guru Granth Sahib were first found in Bargari village on October 12 which triggered widespread Continued on Page 2
them. Living this way had become difficult for him, we learnt while interrogating his people,” said the officer, adding, “The best option for him was to surrender and live in India in jail and carry on his activities from within.” The arrest A source close to Rajan revealed, “Seth (Rajan) planned his arrest. He shared his travel itinerary (Passport no: G 9273860 registered under the name of Mohan Kumar, Garuda Indonesia flight GA715 from Sydney to Bali on October 25) to the Indian agencies, who shared the said information with a Red Corner Notice to Australian intelligence agencies who further alerted the Indonesian Interpol team,” said a source close the mobster. Rajan, a resident of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, would frequently make the trip
to Bali to visit a hotel belonging to his aide, Anil Chandra. As soon as Rajan arrived at the airport he was cornered by the Interpol and Indonesian officials and taken to the detention room. Sources said Rajan was asked to share his passport details and his fingerprints and eyes were scanned before he was taken in. Deportation? The two countries do not have an extradition treaty, so it is likely that the Tilak Nagar don will be deported. Sources claimed that a lot of planning had gone into the arrest, with several Indian ministers flying to Indonesia over the past month or so to hammer out the terms on which Rajan’s custody would be transferred to Indian authorities. As recently as October 24, Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh Continued on Page 2
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