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'Baseless charges'

N. Muthappa Rai writes from the New Central Prison, Bangalore:

In a news report titled "Muthappa Rai planned blasts in Gujarat" (May 18, 2002), it has been most incorrectly stated that I was detained in Dubai along with the aides of Pakistan-based mafia lord Dawood Ibrahim and had planned serial explosions in Government and commercial hubs in Gujarat. For your kind information, I was detained in Dubai in connection with a fake passport case and was deported to India from the UAE as I am a Hindu and pro-Indian. Had I been a Muslim or an ISI front man and a personal aide of Chhota Shakeel, I would never have been sent to India from the UAE as is evident from the past two cases, viz., Abu Salem and Anees Ibrahim.

Furthermore, it has been stated that in the first week of March 2002, Tiger Memon and Salim Ghazi, who were based in Saudi Arabia, Aziz Tungo, who was holed up in the United States, and me, who was supposedly in Muscat, connived with Anees Ibrahim, Dawood Ibrahim's brothet, in plotting the serial explosion in the already strife-torn Gujarat and planned to target top police and Government functionaries. These are false and baseless.

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