City police land in Singapore, hope to get gangster Pillai

MUMBAI: After successful extradition of gangster Chhota Rajan from Indonesia, the Mumbai police are now making efforts to get fugitive gangster Kumar Pillai extradited from Singapore. The former associate of Ashwin Naik was detained in Singapore last month.
A team comprising deputy commissioner of police Dhananjay Kulkarni and senior inspector Indulkar (extradition cell) on Monday flew to Singapore with documentary evidence against Pillai.
If all goes well, the police hope to get Pillai extradited by the end of next month. Sources said that the police have taken along copies of FIRs chargesheets and a dossier on Pillai, containing fingerprints and old photographs and a copy of a red-corner notice.
Sources said that the team is likely to press the Singapore authorities to deport Muddasir alias Munna Jingada who is in custody in Singpore.
Jingada, who is from Jogeshwari, completed his 10-years prison term in Singapore in 2014 in a case of murder and attempt to kill Chhota Rajan in 2001. As India was trying to extradite him, his mentor Chhota Shakeel forged documents to show Jingada as a Pakistani. India and Pakistan are in a legal battle to get him.
As for the Pillai case, the police said that most of his cases are for threat and extortion and a murder case in Vikhroli. The Mumbai police hope to get Pillai’s custody as they have an extradition treaty with Singapore.
Pillai, an engineer, got into the underworld in the ’80s to take revenge against a former MLA, Lal Singh Chavan, who had killed Pillai’s father. Pillai succeeded in killing Chavan, a suspected D-gang member, in the late ’90s.