Man held for attack on Chhota Rajan

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW, OCT. 7. A Pakistani national and close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, Noor Baksh alias Abdulla, who was allegedly involved in the attack on the mafia don, Chhota Rajan, in Bangkok on September 14 has been nabbed by the Uttar Pradesh police.

Noor Baksh was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the State police on Friday from near the passport office here. He was produced before a judge, who remanded him to judicial custody till October 19. A police spokesman said an application would be moved on Monday after the Dussehra holidays to seek police remand of the accused.

Noor Baksh, a resident of Baluchistan, was carrying a fake Indian passport when he was arrested by the STF personnel. During investigation, he admitted that he was present during the attack on Chhota Rajan in Bangkok.

Baksh said he was keeping guard outside the house while his accomplices went in to shoot Rajan. He left Bangkok for Dubai on September 19 and was received there by Chhota Shakeel, another henchman of Dawood Ibrahim.

The next day he left for Karachi along with Chhota Shakeel and then to Kathmandu. He stayed in the Nepal capital for a week and then sneaked into India.

He revealed that the conspiracy to eliminate Rajan was hatched at a guest house owned by Dawood's brother, Anis Ibrahim, in Dubai in the last week of August. It was planned to send two teams to kill Rajan. A Thai national had arranged for their stay and weapons, and they reached Bangkok in the first week of September.

As a case was pending against him in Bangalore for possessing a fake passport, he had come to Lucknow to get another one. He had got a fake passport issued in the name of Nassir Hussain in 1999. He was involved in various cases in Dubai and operated under various names.

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