 It's not often that a police force is pilloried for nabbing a dreaded gangster. But the arrest of Chhota Rajan's right-hand man and sharpshooter Vicky Malhotra from Delhi, while he was in the company of a former Intelligence Bureau (IB) director, has put the Mumbai police in a spot. According to sources, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) is now conducting an inquiry into who tipped the Mumbai police off about the presence of Malhotra in Delhi. And, if the initial inputs are to be believed, it was none other than Dawood Ibrahim, whose men provided Mumbai cops with the information.
The IB is fuming as the arrest has hurt a major operation that the agency was planning. Apparently, the tip-off to Mumbai police was that Malhotra was in Delhi to meet someone important. The Mumbai police intercepted and arrested Malhotra at Panchsheel Marg while he was in the company of a former IB chief.
| I'd consider him somebody important... |
In what is by now obvious, Malhotra was being used by intelligence agencies to get to the core of the Dawood network, if not the don himself. "While there is nothing illegal about the Mumbai police operation, there are some unanswered questions which need to be looked into," said a source, adding that hard work put in by intelligence agencies for the last three months had been undone.
| On the other hand, it's probably better for Vicky's health, if y'know what I mean... |
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