The involvement of Delhi police in the process is to keep a check on Mumbai police whose officials have in the past been found to be associated with D-company.
Sources in agencies told Millennium Post that it had been established that Mumbai police officers had deliberately sabotaged ‘Operation Dawood’ way back in 2005 because of their close connections to the gangster. “Rajan’s security is the responsibility of the Central government and he must be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation not the Mumbai police as the don’s security could be compromised due to possible involvement of some officials with D-company,” sources
further said.
A senior official in the government said that about a decade back a confidential telegram was sent from the US Embassy in New Delhi to Washington which established that Aslam Momim, a senior police inspector in Mumbai police, had links to Dawood and his brothers. A leak from Mumbai police had foiled Ajit Doval’s, who had just retired as the director of the Intelligence Bureau, plan to assassinate Dawood. In 2005, a plan was hatched by agencies to eliminate the don based on specific inputs that Dawood was going to attend his daughter’s reception on 23 July at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai. The agencies had decided to engage Vicky Malhotra and Farid Tanasha, trusted associates of Chota Rajan, instead of sending commandos to execute the plan, which was foiled as information was leaked.
Following investigation evidence emerged against Aslam, who was fired by the then Mumbai Police Commissioner AN Roy. Speaking on the connections of some Mumbai police officials to D-company Roy told Millennium Post on Tuesday that “Evidence was available that Aslam had contacts with D-company. I was asked to fire him on the same ground and he was fired.” He, however, refused to speak about the current situation in the metropolis.