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Indonesia Arrests India's Most Wanted Criminal After 20 Years on the Run
Posted by Samuel on Mon 26th Oct, 2015 - tori.ngIndonesian police have arrested one of India's most wanted gangsters who is sought after in connection to more than two dozen murder cases.
Rajendra Nikalje
Indian federal police revealed that the Indonesian police arrested the gangstar on the resort island of Bali, ending a two-decade-long international manhunt.
Rajendra Nikalje, widely known as Chhota Rajan, has been on Interpol's wanted list since 1995 for running a crime syndicate that engaged in extortion, arms smuggling and contract killing.
"We tracked Chhota Rajan's movements closely and informed the police in Indonesia and Australia," said Anil Sinha, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Indian capital.
"Eventually the Indonesian police managed to arrest him.
"We are making arrangements to bring him to India and pursue all criminal cases against him."
Gangsters like Nikalje, who operated in the financial capital, Mumbai, have long drawn attention in India, with their exploits featured in Bollywood films and newspaper articles.
His arrest comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ratchets up diplomatic pressure on neighbour and arch-rival Pakistan to hand over his former partner and underworld boss, Dawood Ibrahim, suspected of militant links.
Ibrahim allegedly masterminded India's deadliest bombings, which killed at least 250 people and wounded more than 700 in Mumbai in 1993.
Rajendra Nikalje, widely known as Chhota Rajan, has been on Interpol's wanted list since 1995 for running a crime syndicate that engaged in extortion, arms smuggling and contract killing.
"We tracked Chhota Rajan's movements closely and informed the police in Indonesia and Australia," said Anil Sinha, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Indian capital.
"Eventually the Indonesian police managed to arrest him.
"We are making arrangements to bring him to India and pursue all criminal cases against him."
Gangsters like Nikalje, who operated in the financial capital, Mumbai, have long drawn attention in India, with their exploits featured in Bollywood films and newspaper articles.
His arrest comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ratchets up diplomatic pressure on neighbour and arch-rival Pakistan to hand over his former partner and underworld boss, Dawood Ibrahim, suspected of militant links.
Ibrahim allegedly masterminded India's deadliest bombings, which killed at least 250 people and wounded more than 700 in Mumbai in 1993.
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