The city police did not inform the Thai Police about Shetty’s involvement in the murder of gangster Bharat Nepali on their soil.
The Mumbai police team, which had gone to Thailand, had outsmarted their Thai counterparts to get custody of gangster Santosh Shetty.
The city police did not inform the Thai Police about Shetty’s involvement in the murder of gangster Bharat Nepali on their soil.
Had the Mumbai police informed them about this, the Thai police would have instead arrested Shetty in connection with Nepali’s murder and it would have prolonged his deportation.
According to sources in the police department, in November 2010, the Mumbai Police had received information through intelligence sources that Nepali was shot dead in Bangkok.
“Some of the arrested associates of Nepali, Chhota Rajan and Shetty told us that the information of Nepali being shot dead in Bangkok was true. We also knew that Shetty was behind the murder,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity.
The officer added that when the police got information about Shetty’s hideout in Bangkok, a Mumbai police team reached there. In a joint operation with the local police, they caught Shetty.
“We were aware about Nepali’s murder in Bangkok, but if we would have told the local police that Shetty was involved in Nepali’s murder, then they would not deported him but registered a case against him and tried him there,” the officer added.
Shetty has reportedly confessed to having killed Nepali as the latter had suggested they kill their partner Vijay Shetty to increase their profit share in their “businesses”.
Shetty told the police that he assumed that Nepali could next be a threat to him too.
Shetty reportedly called Nepali to an isolated beach bungalow in Pattaya and killed him with a silencer-fitted revolver. He dumped the body into the sea.
“Being a complex and sensitive operation it was important for us to play our cards close to our chest,” Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police, crime, told DNA.
“We will inform the Thai police about his involvement in the murder so that they, too, can take legal steps,” he added.
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