The split between the underworld dons of India – Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan – has turned into a war between the super intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan. The Indian sensitive agencies and military intelligence have failed so far to achieve their goal of eliminating Dawood Ibrahim, despite their successful penetration into the D-Company. Likewise Chota Rajan, once the second in command of Dawood, is being protected by the Indian agencies. But observers watching the underworld scene say Chota Rajan is fast losing ground as it has become difficult for him to lie low in Muslim countries. One highly placed source told the South Asia Tribune Rajan is in constant touch with the underworld of Japan. Recently, he said, a meeting of the underworld dons was held in Tokyo directly under the nose of the Japanese police. Had he not been under protection of the Indian sensitive agencies, the Dawood hounds would have eliminated him by now. In fact, the whole issue has become a Hindu-Muslim showdown. In Muslim countries Chota Rajan cannot develop his base but Dawood has an advantage there.Dawood still has influence in the Mumbai underworld and many responsible persons are on his payroll including sharpshooters of the Mumbai police. This has become the matter of investigation as many of those shot for being members of the Dawood gang actually belonged to the Chota Rajan gang. While Mumbai police is hunting the Rajan gangs, the Indian sensitive agencies support Rajan, though discreetly. This is evident by the fact that Rajan’s right hand man Babloo Srivastava is also being ‘used’ by sensitive agencies whenever his services are needed. At present Babloo is in the Lucknow jail but he is enjoying the full ‘five-star facilities’ inside, courtesy the security agencies. He still manages his kidnapping business with Rajan’s help. Babloo Srivastava was first allegedly used by Indian sensitive agencies in the murder of Mirza Dilshad Beg who was a Dawood-ISI front man in Nepal. Sources say that Babloo’s henchmen Ravi and Vikki had killed Beg, an MP in the Nepalese Parliament, on June 29, 1995 when two ‘unknown’ assailants fired at him.
These sources told the South Asia Tribune Babloo Srivastava is providing information about Dawood to the sensitive agencies who used this info during the Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan. In fact, this is all being done at the instance of Indian sensitive agencies to put pressure on Pakistan to hand over Dawood to India or abandon him to be killed by the goons of Chota Rajan-Babloo Srivastava. Intelligence experts say that Dawood would be eliminated by the ISI itself whenever he becomes irrelevant. The US has already declared him as a Global terrorist for his alleged links with Al-Qaeda. International pressure is gradually mounting on Pakistan on this issue. Sources say that the ISI has already started nurturing another group. Under this strategy the group of Anwar (Chota Shakeel’s brother), Syed Muzaffar, and Yusuf Ghodrawala is being raised to substitute the D-Company. It is said that Anwar is in Pakistan while the two others have made their base in Thailand.
| Disclaimer: I did not make up the name Babaloo Srivastava. Really. If you're into Sanskrit, "sri" is holy, or blessed. I'm not sure about the meaning of vastava on its own, but the term "Vastava Vastu" refers to the Absolute (with capital A). The Club Babloo, of course, was run by the famous Cuban philospher R. Ricardo. |