“The Return Gift (Arrest and Deportation of Roshan Ansari)” continues…

They expected, and naturally so, that the good deed they had done for the Indian Police in nabbing and handing over Aftab and Raju should be reciprocated by us pronto.

I didn’t have the heart to tell Maj. M that I was no longer in the CBI. Call it the burden of obligation I personally carried or the moral responsibility I felt, all I said to the caller was: ‘‘‘Please mail me the details and I will get going.’’’ Within minutes an e-mail was in my inbox with all details connected with the murder.

The lady fugitive Roshan A. S. Ansari, whose parents lived in Ghatkopar (West), a communally sensitive area of Mumbai, was married to a Dubai national namely A. Hamid M Kabanji and had a daughter Hind Kabanji from him. It was Kabanji’s second marriage. He had a twenty-year-old daughter named Muna Ahmed from his first wife. Roshan, the fugitive, had flown out of Dubai with her five-year-old daughter from Kabanji by Air India flight AI 700 in the evening of April 1, 2002, the day of the murder. Both mother and daughter were UAE passport holders whose details were mentioned in the mail.

I called up Director, CBI and apprised him of the phone-call and the request made by Dubai. I needed further instructions. After a pause, all he said nonchalantly was: ‘‘‘Yaar (Buddy), why don’t you do it yourself. Everyone in the CBI will listen to you and do what you want done. If anyone doesn’t, please let me know.’’’ He hung up leaving me in a quandary. I was left holding the baby, but felt immensely pleased somewhere with the trust and confidence he reposed in me by the Director, even after I had left the CBI.

I turned to Deputy Inspector General Virendra Singh, posted in the Mumbai Economic Offences Wing of the CBI. He had served with me during my last assignment in the CBI before my return to the Delhi Police.

To be continued…