Indonesia deports Indian man sought in gangster murders

Mumbai: Mafia don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan is believed to have planned his arrest as suffers from kidney trouble and needs an urgent kidney transplant.

Yanuari Insan, senior Interpol Officer, said the airport authorities have confirmed the weather is good.

However, sources say that Rajan might not be brought to Mumbai, but taken to Delhi instead. Rajan’s deportation has been delayed for two days after Indonesia closed the global airport, due to spewing of volcanic ash from a nearby mountain. Ranja was arrested in popular tourist town during his arrival from Australia on October 25th.

Police said Nikalje, who has been kept in a holding cell in Bali dressed in orange prison fatigues, would be flown directly back to India at 23:00 (1500GMT) Tuesday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is in Delhi for an event organised by the World Economic Forum, had been claiming till Tuesday that Rajan will be brought straight to Mumbai.

According to Bakshi, Rajan is being brought here under the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, of which India is a member-state and a signatory on May 5, 2011.

Delhi Police has six cases registered against Rajan, who was a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim at one point, but split before the 1993 Mumbai blasts were conspired.

Speaking to reporters before his deportation, Rajan said: “Jahan mera janm hua hai, wahan ja rha hun, khush hun”.

The gangster has always been wanted in India in connection with many cases.

India’s national security adviser devised a plan to secure the arrest of Rajan as part of a strategy to hunt down India’s most-wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim, Indian police and ministry sources told Reuters.

Rajan is wanted in over 75 crimes ranging from murder, extortion to smuggling and drug trafficking.