Before being appointed as the Mumbai police chief, Singh was posted as the Director General of the Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau.
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Former Mumbai police commissioner M N Singh made startling revelations about SRK, Dawood Ibrahim's surrender plan and Sharad Pawar at a book launch in Mumbai.
'If India is already involved in helping the insurgents in Baluchistan and Karachi, as Pakistan says, it is but one step for New Delhi to bring Dawood or Hafiz Saeed into its sights,' says Amulya Ganguli.
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar passed the order after Rajan, produced before the court via video conferencing, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.
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Rajan is lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi. The other three persons, who were out on bail, were taken into custody on Monday after the verdict was announced.
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Abu Salem and two other accused were convicted in the 1995 murder case of city-based builder Pradeep Jain.
'I am an old man. 64 years... Never used influence.' 'I am not a politician or a criminal. What influence?' 'Retired. I could not protect myself even (from fabricated charges)?' 'Have no money now either.' 'I don't want to die in custody in disrepute.'
He was rushed to Mumbai's JJ Hospital due to chest pain.
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Chhota Rajan, one of India's most wanted gangster, has been arrested in the tourist town of Bali, Indonesia on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol after eluding law enforcement agencies for over two decades.
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar said this after the agency informed the court that there was a "serious life threat" to Rajan from various underworld mafia groups and intelligence inputs have been received in this regard.
The JNU student leader said, "There is an atmosphere of fear in the country and anybody who speaks against the government is threatened."
'We are not going to let him go free. Justice will be served,' a Pakistan official tells Rediff.com contributor Shahzad Raza in Islamabad.
The 55-year-old gangster was taken straight to the CBI headquarters where he was quizzed on Dawood Ibrahim, India's most-wanted terrorist.
The court will on Tuesday hear arguments on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the convicts.
Rajnath Singh on Monday said that India has effective intelligence to prove that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan.
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'It is for the first time in 70 years that the US has come out totally in India's favour on the Kashmir issue,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The police said that they needed the custody of the dreaded terrorist to know about the role of "insiders and outsiders" who assisted him and five others in fleeing from Nabha jail in Patiala.
One accused was acquitted by the court.
'Even the mafia has certain ethics and follow certain rules, but Abu Salem was so ruthless, so inhuman, there was no ethics at all. He had no basic humanity in him.' India's foremost crime writer S Hussain Zaidi on the dreaded gangster.
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