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Also, conducting a police operation in the area, which is predominantly inhabited by a minority community, without involving the local police, was not at all advisable.

On my request, Arun Bhagat, Special Director, CBI spoke to T.R. Kakkar, then the Officiating
Commissioner of Police, Delhi and requested him to extend help for a joint operation to be carried out by STF, CBI and Gujarat Police. Kakkar asked us to get in touch with R. Tewari, Additional Commissioner of Police (Northern Range), Delhi Police. Kuldip Sharma and I called on Tewari on Oct 10, 1995, who summoned P.N. Aggarwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) and Arun
Kampani, Assistant Commissioner of Police, (Daryaganj) to his office. They were senior officers directly supervising the local police whose assistance we required.

A rough plan of action, basic and simple, prepared by us was given to the Delhi Police officers. The plan was: arrangements would be made with the help of MTNL authorities at the Daryaganj Exchange to monitor calls made from the PCO, where the telephone 3281096 was installed, between 6.30 PM and 10.30 PM every day. Two teams would be located with MOTOROLA Ultra High Frequency wireless sets at strategic points close to the PCO, who would be in wireless contact with the officers based at the Telephone Exchange. Soon after a call was made to the known Ahmedabad number, hopefully, an officer familiar with the voice of Latif present at the exchange would identify and confirm if the caller was Latif. A wireless message would then be sent from the Daryaganj Exchange to the two teams located at Churilwalan near the PCO, who would move in and nab Latif. The plan was accepted and
approved by the officers of the Delhi Police.

K.N. Sharma and I then moved with Aggarwal and Arun Kampani to Aggarwal’s office, also located in Daryaganj, not very far from the telephone exchange. Sunil Saxena, DGM, Janpath, who had so far been extremely helpful, was requested to direct the Incharge of Daryaganj Telephone Exchange to make necessary arrangements for monitoring all calls made from the PCO.

To be continued...