Bannaje Raja to be Freed in Dubai?
Daijiworld Media Network - Dubai (SP)
Dubai, Oct 14: Even Two days after the arrest of the most wanted underworld fugitive Bannanje Raja, Karnataka policemen are yet to receive any official confirmation or intimation from Dubai police about his arrest.
A Karnataka police official said that the UAE government requires lot of paper work to be completed in order to extradite a person from there, and all these papers need to be translated into Arabic lanaugage according to the UAE's legal requirement. This hurdle has been taking a long time to communicate with the Dubai officials, he surmised.
However, reliable information received from Dubai confirms that the Dubai authorities have found no criminal antecedents or related cases pending against Bannanje, and that there has been no active communication from India relating to his extradition. Hence, in all probability, Bannanje Raja may be released either on bail or be freed without filing any cases, the source said.
Top police officials, both from Mangalore and Bangalore, have declined to issue any official statements about Bannaje's arrest, as they are yet to receive specific confirmation about the said arrest from their Dubai counterparts.
Bannanje Raja is wanted by the Karnataka police for several pending cases against him, which include murder, extortion, cheating etc. It may be recalled that Bannanje Raja was reportedly arrested from Dubai airport on Monday Oct 12, 2009, while trying to flee to Malaysia.
At the same time, western range inspector general of police, Gopal Hosur, asserted that there are no technical snags in getting Bannaje Raja deported from dubai, if it is true that he had been arrested by the policemen there. He said that the policemen here can take up the issue of bringing him here, only after receiving the official information of his arrest.
The interpol had earlier issued a red corner notice for the arrest of Bannanje Raja, who had hid in Dubai after committing several crimes in Karnataka.