Jakarta: India is all set to get the deportation of Chhota Rajan, the fugitive underworld don who is being kept in a Bali prison.
“We will get him back deportation is what we have asked for and final procedures are on,” a senior Indian source told NewsMobile.
The statement assumes significance as New Delhi has impressed upon Jakarta that deportation was the easier route and that south block has adviced that extradition option shouldn’t be exercised.
Besides this India has officially asked Indonesian authorities to beef up security for Rajan and limit access to the detained don, with credible inputs coming in that the D company has sent a hit squad to kill Rajan in Bali.
The momentum has gained on the Rajan case ahead of a high level meeting between the visiting Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari and the senior Indonesian leadership where security cooperation is a key agenda for talks on Tuesday.
A joint team of Central Bureau of investigation and intelligence agencies is in Bali to escort Rajan back to India.
First Secretary Consular at the Indian embassy in Jakarta, Sanjeev Kumar Agrawal, is also with the probe team.
Following the talk with the officials, the team is likely to quiz Rajan.
The joint team is carrying all the relevant documents needed for Rajan’s deportation, including his crime history and a court warrant against him.
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India and Indonesia signed agreements in the fields of renewable energy and culture and discussed possibilities of expanding cooperation in counter-terrorism and defence.
Vice President Hamid Ansari, who met his Indonesian counterpart Jusuf Kalla, said that ways to diversify and increase bilateral trade as well to encourage investments in each other’s country through private sectors were also discussed.
“For this we will be working to provide a robust and contemporary legal framework,” he told reporters.
“We have also discussed possibilities of expanding our cooperation in defence and counter-terrorism through intensification of our existing mechanisms,” Ansari said.
Giving details of one of the agreements signed, Ansari said that India and Indonesia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in new and renewable energy sector.
“This cooperation is important as both India and Indonesia have committed themselves to reduce carbon emissions by 35 per cent and 29 per cent respectively by 2030,” he said.
Ansari also said that a MoU for cooperation in cultural field was also signed.
He also thanked Indonesia for supporting India in organising ‘Sahabat India – The Festival of India in Indonesia’ earlier this year.