After several years of struggle, the Maharashtra home department finally won his custody with its counterpart in Lucknow sending a letter confirming that he is not needed in UP anymore. The department is expected to complete the formalities and bring him to Mumbai in a month.
Don Dawood Ibrahim's former aide and dreaded gangster Subhash Singh Thakur, sentenced to life in the JJ hospital shootout case, will finally be brought back to a Mumbai jail after 12 years. Thakur, a native of Uttar Pradesh (UP), had gone to Varanasi on transit remand but had been extending it on some or the other pretext.
After several years of struggle, the Maharashtra home department finally won his custody with its counterpart in Lucknow sending a letter confirming that he is not needed in UP anymore. The department is expected to complete the formalities and bring him to Mumbai in a month.
Thakur time and again has made attempts to prolong his stay in UP's Fatehgarh Central Jail. He first made a request to the department in 2011 to allow him to continue in UP as it is his native state. When the department turned down the request, he moved the Bombay High Court in 2012. The court disposed of his petition and asked him to go back to the home department with his plea.
Four weeks ago, he again approached the home department, which again refused to grant him a transfer and initiated the process of getting him back to Mumbai.
As per the prosecution's case, Thakur and other gangsters had barged into the general ward of JJ hospital on September 12, 1992, and gunned down Shailesh Haldankar of rival Arun Gawli gang to avenge the murder of Dawood's brother-in-law Ibrahim Ismail Parkar. In the firing, two policemen — PG Javsen and KB Bhanavat — were also killed. Five others, including a nurse and a patient, were injured.
Advocate Rohini Salian, who had handled the case on behalf of the state of Maharashtra, in an interview later had described Thakur as a quiet, cold killer with an expressionless face. "He had only one vice — he liked to kill. I have seen many dreaded criminals, but this one made a deep impression on me," she had said.
Thakur, who is believed to have broken away from Ibrahim and formed his own gang, was charged under sections 3(2) (committing a terrorist act), 3(3) (aiding and abetting a terrorist act) and 5 (possessing weapons in a notified area) of the Tada, sections 302 (murder) and 307 (causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code, and section 27 of the Arms Act.
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