Delhi: Kala Rana to step in from Bangkok for Kala Jathedi

NEW DELHI: The dramatic arrest of gangster Sandeep alias Kala Jathedi seems more like part of a well-scripted plan by the brass of an alliance of top gangsters of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan who are all lodged in jail, to control the underworld in north India, sources believe.
The vacuum created by Jathedi will be filled by Virender Pratap alias Kala Rana, who is based in Bangkok and has been tasked to handle the syndicate's operations from outside India. The rest will operate from jail and run a group of around 700 shooters and henchmen. TOI had first reported about such an alliance in the making in May.
Sources in an intelligence agency perceived the arrest as something similar to the case of gangster Jitender Gogi, who was arrested by the Special Cell team last year days after the then police commissioner had taken charge. Gogi began to operate from jail upon his arrest and not only made extortion calls, but also managed the daring escape of his deputy, Kuldeep Fajja, from Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital while in police custody. Fajja was subsequently shot dead by another team.
Sources saw a parallel with Jathedi going to jail and the alliance partners, Lawrence Bishnoi, Raju Basodi, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, Kali Rajpoot and Sampat Nehra, all operating from behind bars. As a source claimed, “The alliance aims to indulge in extortion, drugs and illegal arms trafficking, land grabbing and target killings in collaboration with partners in Mexico, Italy and Thailand. Their targets are Bollywood celebrities, Punjabi singers and actors and businessmen from Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana.”
The Special Cell has been tipped off about the alliance having approached international drug trafficker Amandeep Multani, who is connected with Mexican drug cartels, for a collaboration last year. Multani was arrested by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in April, leading to a halt in the alliance's operations.
The second international contact has been identified as one Monty from the UK who has links with an Italian mafia outfit. While Monty masquerades as a social media handler, he is learnt to be deeply involved in the expansion plans of the alliance.
"Wrestler Sushil Kumar was also a part of this nexus until he fell out with Jathedi and joined Neeraj Bawana. Sushil Kumar provided them with contacts for land settlement and extortion,” alleged a police insider.
Some other men like Sube Gurjar of Haryana and the slain Anandpal's henchmen are also part of this alliance. Apart from Kala Rana, police have identified a few international members of this alliance such as Satyenderjeet Singh alias Goldi Brar of Canada. “The criminal alliance has been functioning in a well-organised manner and has emerged as a name synonymous with gangland terror in the four major north Indian states,” revealed an anti-terror wing officer.
The Special Cell had recently filed an FIR under MCOCA to crack down on this newly forged alliance and had taken jailed gangsters like Bishnoi and Nehra on remand. About Nehra, an officer recalled that he was earlier arrested for hatching a plot to kill actor Salman Khan for which he had conducted a recce of his residence. Several other celebrities are on this alliance's radar, the officer added.