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Pak bid to 'grab' Dawood aide from Thailand foiled - Hindustan Times
India has foiled Pakistan's bid to secure the custody of Muzakkir Sayyed alias Munna 'Jinga', a Mumbai-born aide of fugitive Indian don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, from Thailand.
Sayyed, a sharpshooter, had led an attack on rival don Chhota Rajan in Bangkok in September 2000.
The 10-year jail term of Sayyed, who was housed at a Bangkok prison facility after being convicted for orchestrating the attack on Rajan, ended recently. Pakistani diplomats, allegedly armed with fake documents and passport details of Sayyed that identified him as a citizen of their country, had contacted their counterparts in Thailand a few weeks ago - while he was still incarcerated in a Bangkok prison facility — to "grab him", said a CBI official on the condition of anonymity.
"Pakistani officials told Thai authorities that Sayyed was a Pakistani citizen — on the basis of papers submitted by them, including a fake passport created after his flight to Karachi from Mumbai in 1999 — and demanded that he be deported to their country as per Thailand laws," said the official.
It was suspected that Sayyed and five other members of the team, which attacked Rajan on Dawood's orders, had allegedly received training and logistical help from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Incidentally, the ISI is also suspected to have sponsored the don's stay and activities since his orchestration of the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Alerted by the Indian embassy in Bangkok and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), the CBI scrambled to halt Pakistan's attempts to take Sayyed with them in the nick of time.
"The Thai authorities had already accepted the Pakistani position. But we challenged their contention and got the deportation stayed," the official said.
"Thailand is likely to deport Sayyed to India soon," said the official, "But Pakistan is cagey about India getting hold of Sayyed because he can divulge details on how its agencies had abetted the attack on Rajan, which was an act of international terrorism."
India has foiled Pakistan's bid to secure the custody of Muzakkir Sayyed alias Munna 'Jinga', a Mumbai-born aide of fugitive Indian don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, from Thailand.
Sayyed, a sharpshooter, had led an attack on rival don Chhota Rajan in Bangkok in September 2000.
The 10-year jail term of Sayyed, who was housed at a Bangkok prison facility after being convicted for orchestrating the attack on Rajan, ended recently. Pakistani diplomats, allegedly armed with fake documents and passport details of Sayyed that identified him as a citizen of their country, had contacted their counterparts in Thailand a few weeks ago - while he was still incarcerated in a Bangkok prison facility — to "grab him", said a CBI official on the condition of anonymity.
"Pakistani officials told Thai authorities that Sayyed was a Pakistani citizen — on the basis of papers submitted by them, including a fake passport created after his flight to Karachi from Mumbai in 1999 — and demanded that he be deported to their country as per Thailand laws," said the official.
It was suspected that Sayyed and five other members of the team, which attacked Rajan on Dawood's orders, had allegedly received training and logistical help from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Incidentally, the ISI is also suspected to have sponsored the don's stay and activities since his orchestration of the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Alerted by the Indian embassy in Bangkok and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), the CBI scrambled to halt Pakistan's attempts to take Sayyed with them in the nick of time.
"The Thai authorities had already accepted the Pakistani position. But we challenged their contention and got the deportation stayed," the official said.
"Thailand is likely to deport Sayyed to India soon," said the official, "But Pakistan is cagey about India getting hold of Sayyed because he can divulge details on how its agencies had abetted the attack on Rajan, which was an act of international terrorism."
