Notorious Criminal Rashid Malbari Produced in Court on June 1

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, June 02: Rashid Malbari, alias Rashid Hussain Sheikh, a close aide of gangster Chota Shakeel , facing charges of hatching conspiracy to execute BJP leader Varun Gandhi and Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik and others, was produced before JMFC-II Court in Mangalore on June 1.

 

 

 

Rashid, who was arrested by the police, was brought from Belgaum Jail on Monday morning under tight security and produced before the Magistrate who posted the case for June 15.

Rasheed Malabari, a resident of Kerala had come into coastal Karnataka’s Mangalore town with a two-pronged agenda. His instructions -- from notorious and elusive don Chhota Shakeel who is hiding in Pakistan - were to eliminate Varun Gandhi and Pramod Muthalik .

Intercepts picked up by the Intelligence Bureau suggest that Malabari, a right-hand man of Chhota Shakeel, was assigned the job of eliminating both Varun and Pramod Muthalik as they felt that these two had become a threat to the Islamic community in India.

Investigations, which had been carried out following the arrest of Malabari, had revealed following the violence and panic created by the Shri Ram Sena in Mangalore, the plan was hatched in Pakistan to eliminate its leader Pramod Muthalik.

While the planning was in progress, the Varun Gandhi issue came under spotlight and Malabari was specifically instructed to stay back in Pakistan and hatch another conspiracy.

Once the conspiracy was hatched, Malabari moved into India from Pakistan. He came into the Mangalore belt first and then set up a base at Kasargod. Once the safe den was set up, he started organising men to carry out the attack.

The maiden investigations had revealed that Malabari and his men had decided to play a wait-and-watch game before carrying out the assassination of the two leaders. Malabari told his interrogators in Mangalore that they were waiting for the election process to commence.

They planned to go ahead with their mission once the campaigns of the two leaders commenced.

The police, who arrested Malabari and his associates, have also seized two pistols, ammunition and Rs 19,000 in cash. The amount paid to carry out the assassinations is still unclear.