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Dawood offered to surrender
In a day of high drama former Delhi Police Commissioner and CBI officer Neeraj Kumar on Saturday denied reports attributed to him that fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim had negotiated surrender with him months after the 1993 Mumbai blasts and that the government of the day had scuttled the plans in the last minute.
Don spoke to me thrice, but CBI declined his offer, says former top cop. But he hastily retreats following ex-CBI chief Vijayarama Rao’s rebuttal
I spoke to Dawood thrice... he seemed to be toying with the idea of surrendering but had a worry- his rivals could finish him off if he returned. I told him his safety would be CBI’s responsibility – Neeraj Kumar, former Delhi Police Chief
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Hyderabad: In a day of high drama former Delhi Police Commissioner and CBI officer Neeraj Kumar on Saturday denied reports attributed to him that fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim had negotiated surrender with him months after the 1993 Mumbai blasts and that the government of the day had scuttled the plans in the last minute. Kumar in an interview to a national daily published on Saturday had said that Dawood wanted to surrender in June 1994 but the then CBI boss did not agree.
Former CBI Director Vijayarama Rao in a quick reaction refuted the claims made by Neeraj Kumar. Rao said no such offer was brought to his notice by any officer. He told the media that Dawood was most wanted criminal and if he had expressed his willingness to surrender they would have grabbed the opportunity and would have brought him to India.
Following this denial, Neeraj Kumar took a U turn and denied having given any interview to the paper which published it on Saturday alleging that the CBI did not agree for Dawood’s surrender. The former CBI officer said, “It was an informal chat with the correspondent who is known to me for some time. He has given the chat a slant which is both incorrect and unfortunate.
At no stage was D (Dawood) willing to surrender nor did anyone stop him from surrendering,” he added. Kumar, who probed the 1993 Mumbai serial blast cases when he was a DIG with the CBI, said, “He (Dawood) did speak with me but that was to give his defence in connection with Mumbai serial blast cases.”
It may be mentioned here that according to reports in media Kumar at a book release function last month had said the CBI had planned to get Dawood with the help of “non-state actors” but the move was scuttled by his “political bosses”.
