Dawood Ibrahim wanted to surrender? Former Delhi top cop Neeraj Kumar denies report

Former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Saturday denied reports which quoted him claiming that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts mastermind, Dawood Ibrahim, was willing to surrender but CBI refused his offer.

Dawood Ibrahim wanted to surrender? Former Delhi top cop Neeraj Kumar denies report

New Delhi: Former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Saturday denied reports which quoted him claiming that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts mastermind, Dawood Ibrahim, was willing to surrender but CBI refused his offer.

A report in Hindustan Times had quoted Kumar who claimed that he spoke to a “jittery” Dawood three times in June 1994. 

“I spoke to a jittery Dawood three times in June 1994… He seemed to be toying with the idea of surrendering but had one worry — his rival gangs could finish him off if he returned to India. I told him his safety would be the responsibility of the CBI,” Kumar told Hindustan Times.

Kumar was leading the CBI probe into the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, which claimed 27 lives and injured over 700 others, and was later appointed as the Delhi police commissioner until his retirement in July 2013.

Noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani said that the underworld don had also called him up and was willing to surrender but wanted assurance that he would be kept under house arrest, the report stated.

Reacting to Kumar's revelation, former CBI director, Vijay Rama Rao denied that an offer of surrender was ever made by Dawood.

“If it was the case, then it was not brought to my knowledge,” he was quoted by ANI.

He added, “If such offer would have come, we would have grabbed it.”

Meanwhile, Minister of State (External Affairs) VK Singh told ANI that if Kumar wanted to say something, then he should have said that during his tenure. 

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