NEW DELHI: The extradition of senior
D-Company operative and Chhota Shakeel aide Munna Zingada, who served 16 years in a Thai jail for an attempt to assassinate Chhota Rajan, is expected to help India establish his boss Dawood Ibrahim’s presence in
Pakistan. This, an intelligence source pointed out, is precisely the reason why Islamabad left no stone unturned to secure his deportation by anyhow proving him to be a Pakistani national.
Of course, the counter-evidence submitted to the Thai court by India — fingerprints, DNA samples of his family members in India, collegeleaving certificate and copies of FIR registered against him in Mumbai for crimes including murder — punctured Pakistan’s claim and led the court to rule Zingada to be an Indian national.Munna Jhingra, whose real name is Sayyed Muzakkir Muddassar Hussain, is a native of Sayyed Muddassar Chawl near Toofani Kirana Stores, Prem Nagar, Jogeshwari (East), Mumbai.
His father Muddassar Hussain had deep links with the 1993 blasts in Mumbai, according to Indian agencies. Pakistan had earlier used forged documents to secure extradition of Myanmarese drug peddler and Zingada’s close aide Ibrahim Koko. Though he was extradited to Pakistan in 2015, the local Pakistani court during the trial ruled he was travelling on fake Pakistani documents and ordered his deportation back to
Thailand.
According to intelligence sources, Zingada had been under the patronage of Pakistan’s ISI for being a trusted leader of D-Company. It was ISI that prepared his Pakistani passport in the fake name of Mohammed Saleem to facilitate his visit to Thailand for executing the assassination of Chhota Rajan. Even after he reached Thailand for the assigned task, his protection was taken care of by the embassy of Pakistan, an intelligence officer told TOI.
