How a plot to catch gangster Chhota Rajan led the Mumbai police straight to Ajit Doval.
📷 : Raj Shamani
📷 : Raj Shamani
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00:00So, two main gangs, one was Dawood Ibrahim, who went to Pakistan and the other was Chota Rajan, who was nowhere to be found.
00:07So, we kept them under electronic surveillance.
00:10The officers said, we have identified two voices.
00:13One is of Vicky Malhotra and the other is of Chota Rajan.
00:17We are not able to identify the third voice.
00:18Who were they?
00:19Ajit Doval sir.
00:20He was developing these people for action against Dawood.
00:30At that time, when I was in the Joint CP Crime Branch in Mumbai, two main gangs, one was Dawood Ibrahim, who went to Pakistan and the other was Chota Rajan, who was nowhere to be found.
00:57Their groups used to give extortion calls to businessmen and collect a lot of money from them.
01:08So, we kept them under electronic surveillance.
01:11As and when there was trial and error, that this is his man, this is his man, keep an eye on him.
01:16Within ten days, you will get to know from one call that yes, he is active.
01:20But he is active on some other number.
01:22Then you will keep that number.
01:24So, this is a very scientific and technical process that our teams do in the Crime Branch.
01:34So, their information was there and they used to tell me that very strong extortion calls are coming.
01:43And they identified two voices.
01:46One is Vicky Malhotra and the other is Farid Tanasha.
01:49And these two boys were of Chota Rajan gang.
01:52Okay.
01:53So, where are these calls coming from?
01:56So, we sent our team to Kolkata.
01:59Kolkata, this team could not trace.
02:02It came back.
02:03Then the calls started from Delhi.
02:05This project was called X Project.
02:08So, the officers said that we have identified two voices.
02:11One is of Vicky Malhotra and the other is of Chota Rajan.
02:15And officers in Crime Branch are absolutely excellent IOs and very intuitive detectives.
02:24They are not able to identify the third voice.
02:26So, I thought, leave it.
02:28You go and catch them.
02:30So, a proper operation was planned.
02:33Because we are going out of state to Delhi.
02:36So, our DCP could not go in the team.
02:39For some reason, the flight was missed.
02:42So, the team reached there.
02:45When they decided to apprehend Farid Tanasha and Vicky Malhotra,
02:54they found that Vicky was there and there was another gentleman with him.
03:00But Farid was not there.
03:02So, when they caught Vicky and his accomplice,
03:05his accomplice said, leave him.
03:07I am an IPS officer.
03:08I am retired.
03:09I am the chief of the Intelligence Bureau.
03:11So, the DCP was not there.
03:14Inspector Patil did not understand anything.
03:17So, he called me on mobile.
03:19He told me, Madam, you talk to him.
03:21He said, I am the director.
03:22I am also retired.
03:24I was also shocked.
03:26And this was the voice that our officers were not able to identify.
03:29I asked him, tell me your name.
03:33He said, your name is correct.
03:36So, tell me your Maharashtra batchmates.
03:39That you are really from IPS.
03:42So, he told me the names of his Maharashtra IPS batchmates.
03:46And then he got angry with me.
03:48You leave him.
03:49And he also said that there is no such thing as a joint DP.
03:56I said, I am a woman and I am a joint DP.
03:59In this, we had a little argument.
04:01So, he said, I will teach you a lesson.
04:03I also said, I will teach you a lesson.
04:05In the meantime, he said that these police officers are catching Vicky Malhotra.
04:15And he called me to Delhi's control room.
04:19From Delhi's control room, because he had told me that I am the former director of IB.
04:24Help came immediately.
04:26But this information also leaked.
04:28Former IB chief along with Vicky Malhotra from Chhota Rajan gang.
04:36Caught by Mumbai police and all.
04:39So, he was embarrassed.
04:42And later he said, not to me, to someone.
04:45He felt that this team is from Delhi.
04:48And the Delhi Joint Commissioner of Crime is a male officer.
04:52So, he felt that this is all a façade.
04:55This is wrong.
04:57So, after that, Vicky Malhotra was convicted.
05:00He was punished.
05:01And this team also arrested Farid Tanasha immediately.
05:05But he was murdered.
05:08Farid Tanasha.
05:09Farid Tanasha.
05:10But why was he there?
05:12Was he making a relationship with them so that he could extract information from them and meet them?
05:16Was he involved with them?
05:18Did he go to catch them?
05:20Why was he there?
05:21No, no, he was not involved at all.
05:23Later.
05:24At that time, this whole controversy happened.
05:26From there, the denial came that he was not there.
05:29So, later a Home Secretary, I mentioned in my book,
05:33he said that he was developing these people for action against Dawood.
05:42Oh.
05:43So, in this, Mumbai police was also defamed.
05:46So, what did many people say?
05:48Mumbai police deliberately sabotaged this operation.
05:55It was not like that at all.
05:57You have to trust us.
05:59We are doing a parallel operation.
06:02We do not know that it is their operation.
06:04Okay, I had called at that time, the IB chief of Mumbai,
06:08that a gentleman is saying that I am a former retired IB chief and I am doing an operation.
06:14Are you aware?
06:15He said no, we are not aware.
06:18So, he was preparing according to himself in a silo.
06:21Yes, correct.
06:22So, it was possible that he could have run his operation,
06:25but due to Mumbai police, he stopped in the middle.
06:27But there was no intention.
06:29We respect all agencies.
06:31Who were they?
06:33Read the book.
06:34Tell me.
06:35If it is written in the book, then you can tell me.
06:37Then it is public information.
06:39The current National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval Sir.