Sharad Pawar: Rejected Dawood Ibrahim’s conditional surrender offer
Pawar says the offer was made by Ram Jethmalani in the 1990s when he was Maharashtra's chief minister
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar said on Saturday that senior advocate Ram Jethmalani had contacted him over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s willingness to surrender but the conditions that were put forward for it were not acceptable to the state government.
The offer was made during Pawar’s tenure as chief minister in the 1990s.
“It is true that Ram Jethmalani had given a proposal about Dawood’s willingness to return. But there was a condition that Dawood should not be kept in jail. Rather he be allowed to remain in a house. This was not acceptable. We said he had to face the law," Pawar told reporters here.
The former Union minister was asked about Jethmalani’s statement that Dawood, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was willing to surrender to Indian authorities but Pawar, then chief minister heading a Congress government in the state, had rejected the offer. PTI
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