BHOPAL: A brand new e-book written by a former IPS officer has threaded collectively the hyperlink between the bridal robe of Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter and the kidnapping of the son of an Indore industrialist in 2005.
The robe was stitched by tailor Ismail Khan in MP’s Shivpuri district and shipped to Mecca the place Dawood’s daughter, Mahrukh, married in July 2005.
A month later, 20-year-old Nitesh Nagori, the son of an Indore-based cement producer, was kidnapped and Ismail was named as an accused.
He has been absconding since then.
Ismail was near gangster Aftab Alam, Dawood’s lieutenant. Neither of them has been caught.
The case lengthy remained within the shadows however has gained renewed consideration following publication of a e-book by retired IPS officer Dr Shailendra Srivastava.
Tailor-made Match… For Crime
Nitesh was kidnapped on Aug 17, 2005, and the abductors demanded a ransom of Rs 4 crore. A good friend of Nitesh, Dhruv, and an alleged affiliate, Gaurav, had been arrested in Sep 2005 on the cost of aiding Ismail in kidnapping Nitesh. In keeping with police, Dhruv named Ismail because the mastermind.
It is throughout this probe that police learnt Ismail had stitched Mahrukh’s bridal robe. Police additionally found Ismail’s connections with Aftab.
Aftab, who fled Mumbai in 1997, was alleged to be working from the Gulf throughout the kidnapping. Ismail was promised a job in Dubai and a fee for his function within the kidnapping, plus Rs 1 crore for the robe, say police.
Kidnapped Or Staged?
In 2010, an Indore court docket sentenced accused Amjad Khan, Idris Khan and Manish to life imprisonment and acquitted Dhruv, Gaurav, and a few others named within the case. Amjad and Idris could be granted bail in 2020-21.
Ismail was by no means caught. Neither had been Two different suspects, Randhawa and Ibrahim. “Warrants had been issued towards them and a duplicate of the warrant towards Aftab was despatched to Interpol. Ismail fled to Mumbai after the incident, stayed there for a while, and appears to have finally moved to Dubai,” Srivastava stated.
In keeping with Srivastava, there was a surprising twist within the case when the sufferer allegedly turned out to be the planner of the entire scheme in league along with his good friend. Nevertheless, throughout the investigation, Indore police obtained inputs on clashes between Dawood and Chhota Rajan, and their covert actions in Madhya Pradesh, he stated.
Meet Vicky… er Vijay
In 2004, Vicky Malhotra, a Chhota Rajan gang member, made a threatening name from Bangkok to an Indore liquor baron, demanding Rs 4 crore and warning that he could be kidnapped except he paid up. The businessman contacted Indore police and supplied the cellular quantity. Though police registered a case, they initially failed to understand the importance of the quantity, Srivastava remembers.
As an SOP, this quantity was shared with Mumbai Police and it was put underneath surveillance. In 2005, throughout preparations for his daughter’s marriage ceremony, Dawood turned inadvertently linked to the case. Vicky, arriving in Mumbai, activated the identical quantity, alerting Mumbai Police. He was arrested in Delhi.
“On the time, I used to be serving as IG in Indore. Upon studying of Vicky’s arrest, I reopened the case associated to the ransom risk. With a manufacturing warrant from court docket, I introduced Vicky to Indore. Regardless of his worry of harsh therapy, we handled him with respect, aiming to achieve his cooperation. I personally engaged with him, providing him meals and facilitating contact along with his household to construct belief,” Srivastava advised TOI.
Goal: Dawood
Throughout our discussions, Vicky revealed his true identification as Vijay Kumar Yadav from Murshidabad, West Bengal, and supplied an in-depth account of his life within the underworld. He recounted his transformation from a petty thief to a major determine in Chhota Rajan’s gang, and shared intricate particulars of his prison actions, together with his involvement in plots towards Dawood,” the previous IPS officer stated.
Vicky detailed quite a few makes an attempt to assassinate Dawood, together with a failed plan to focus on him throughout his daughter’s burial in Karachi. He additionally recounted a dramatic episode in Dubai the place he, together with an confederate, tried to assault Dawood at India Membership. Their try failed as Dawood didn’t present up.
Srivastava, a 1986-batch IPS officer, retired just lately after 34 years in Madhya Pradesh Police. He was final posted as DG/chairman, MP Police Housing and Infrastructure Improvement Company. As Rajnandgaon SP (in undivided MP), he obtained an award for the arrest of a high Maoist chief in 1994.
