Court remands Babloo to 12 days judicial custody

Underworld don Babloo Srivastava and his accomplice Fazl-ur-Rehman were today remanded by a Delhi court to 12 days of judicial custody in connection with a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) case.

New Delhi, Sep 13 : Underworld don Babloo Srivastava and his accomplice Fazl-ur-Rehman were today remanded by a Delhi court to 12 days of judicial custody in connection with a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) case.

Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur remanded them to judicial custody till September 25 as the Investigating Officer sought more time to file the charge sheet in the case.

Under MCOCA, the police have to file the charge sheet in connection with a case within 180 days of the arrest of the accused.

Srivastava was brought to Delhi from a Bareilly Jail in Uttar Pradesh in pursuant to a production warrant.

Srivastav was arrested on July 27.

The special cell of Delhi Police had lodged an FIR under MCOCA against Srivastava and his associate Fazal-ur-Rahman on December 29 last year.

The police had alleged that they were running an extortion racket in the capital during the period 1983-97.

The court rejected Babloo`s plea that he should not be handed over to the Delhi Police as it was against the undertaking given by the centre to Singapore authorities at the time of his extradition in 1995.

Srivastava was extradited on grounds of his involvement in four criminal cases, excluding the present MOCOCA case, his counsel claimed.

The Delhi High Court had in February acquitted Srivastava, who was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Suneja, a Delhi-based businessman, by a lower court.

Srivastava's co-accused, businessman Nitin Shah, was also given a life term for the murder, which was carried out over a payment dispute.

Suneja was shot dead by Manjit Singh and Virender Pant, members of Babloo's gang, on August 2, 1992, as he was returning to his Shakarpur residence from a nearby temple.

ANI