Former Mumbai police commissioner Meera Borwankar in her book, 'Madam Commissioner' says a lot in the chapter named 'Extortion calls and two and a half arrests'.
After the operation to execute Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai in 2005 failed; Ajit Doval reportedly told Ms Meera Borwankar, "I will teach you a lesson".
Borwankar notes, "When I refused to leave Vicky Malhotra and gave instructions to Inspector Patil to come back immediately, there was a conversation with former IB joint director (Ajit Doval) and me on the phone. At the end of the conversation, he said, 'I will teach you a lesson,' and I replied saying the same, 'I would teach him a lesson. And I got my lessons.”
She, however, added, “Yes, I got my lesson, but I will not reprimand for arresting both, as we were very professional."
In an interview with Mumbai Tak, Borwankar explained it as a “simple case of a lack of coordination between both agencies” and said it is “completely wrong to accuse the Mumbai Police of working for Dawood Ibrahim.”
"We kept intercepting criminal phone calls. This happened in 2005. At that time, in Mumbai, top businessmen were receiving extortion calls from the underworld, and the environment was not good. We intercepted calls, and the operation was termed as project X. We intercepted this call and found Vicky Malhotra, and he was speaking to someone on the phone calling him ‘sir,’” Borwankar said.
She continued: “The voice of ‘sir’ was very different, and no one in our department could identify who the ‘sir’ was. We first sent the team to Kolkata and later to Delhi to arrest Vicky Malhotra and Farid Tanasha. Inspector Patil was there in Delhi, and he was taking commands directly from me as DCP Dhananjay Kamlakar missed his flight.
Inspector Patil confronted Vicky Malhotra and another person who called himself an ex-joint director of IB. He called up the Delhi Police control room and the news was spread in the media as well.”
In an exclusive interview with 'India Today' in 2015, former Home Secretary and BJP leader (now Minister) RK Singh blew the lid off one of the most infamous chapters in India's counter-terrorism efforts.
RK Singh revealed, "An operation to eliminate Dawood Ibrahim was being planned before it was blown by the actions of some Mumbai cops. Ajit Doval was involved in the operation."
In 2005, news broke that Dawood Ibrahim's daughter Mahrukh was to marry Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad's son Junaid. As soon as Indian intelligence agencies got wind of Dawood's plan to marry his daughter, a plan was hatched to eliminate the underworld don in Dubai. Agencies engaged Chota Rajan's men to execute plan and Ajit Doval was leading the operation. Rajan deputed two of his most trusted sharpshooters, Vicky Malhotra and Farid Tanasha.
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