Mirza Dilshad Beg
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Mirza Dilshad Beg was a Nepali
parliamentarian with the dubious record of links with Dawood Ibrahim's D-company and Pakistan's ISI
. He was murdered in 1998.
near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Mirza began his forays into the underworld around late eighties. He grew in notoriety through car thefts, assault, kidnapping and of course murders, later thought of his antecedents as petty crimes.
in Mumbai in the early eighties, when both were struggling to carve a niche for themselves in India. Besides, Dawood, Mirza also had links with Chhota Rajan
, Chhota Shakeel
, the brothers Amar and Ashwin Naik and members of the Pathan syndicate. However, he shot to prominence only after his association with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
operatives in India and Nepal.
The porous Indo-Nepal border helped him sneak in and out of his home state and into Nepal. From then on, his notoriety grew so much that the UP police announced a reward for his arrest.
He resigned from the Nepal Sadbhawana Party
, and joined the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party
winning two consecutive terms from the Kapilavastu
constituency in south-west Nepal. Finally, his shady past became his nemesis and began to erode his popularity as a politician. Mumbai's Crime Branch officers believed that Mirza regularly used his Krishna Nagar mansion to shelter gangsters on the run from Indian enforcement agencies.
His residence was also used for other illegal activities including confinement of abductees, drug-trafficking, gun-running and forging of documents.
He was so effective that Dawood, whose reach had spread from Dubai
to Karachi
and Colombo
to London
, regarded Kathmandu as his strongest base. In fact the mafia don even considered shifting to Kathmandu for a while, following the Gulshan Kumar
murder. The Indian government had tried to extradite his lieutenant Abu Salem
for the murder and had turned the heat on the UAE government to secure Salem's custody.However, it was Mirza's declining clout which forced him to change his mind, making him opt for the ISI sanctuary in Karachi.
Mirza's greed turned him towards gun-running, smuggling arms procured from the Afghan Mujahedins and the ISI, into India. The cache of four AK-56s and hand grenades seized by the Andheri police from Chhota Shakeel
gangsters last month were supplied by Mirza's network, police say.
Mirza's exploits include an aborted bid on the life of UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh
in Nainital. Mirza's murder has also stunned the Mumbai underworld as most fugitives have, at some time or the other, used Mirza's good offices for passage out of the country.
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan
took the responsibility of killing Beg and alleged that "through the ISI, he (beg) was spreading terror in India"
Secondly, following Gulshan Kumar's killing in Mumbai, the main hit-man Vikram Wahi -- a close associate of Babloo Srivastava -- had absconded to Kathmandu and his local hideout was raided by the Nepal police. Even as the modalities for Wahi's surrender were being worked out, his dead body -- hacked into pieces -- was recovered at the Indo-Nepal border near Krishnanagar. Besides Babloo Srivastava, Wahi's associates including Karan Singh Magga -- who was to eventually gun down Beg on 29 June 1998 along with underworld don Chhota Rajan
's associate, Rohit Verma -- harbored a grudge against him.
The third angle to the Nepal MP's killing, the intelligence report states, related to Shafi Mohammad Khan of Krishnanagar who was arrested in a narcotics case by the Nepal Police in Mumbai. Like Babloo Srivastava, he too was of the view that Mirza had made no efforts to secure his release after arrest nor was he extended sufficient help during his trial.
This, along with the internecine gang wars between Chota Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim
were the main reasons for Mirza's murder. Chhota Rajan is believed to have contacted Rohit Verma in Nepal to organise the killing and advised him not to strike in Kathmandu. Babloo Srivastava then contacted Shafi Mohammad and gave him some money to arrange for a safe house in Kathmandu. Despite taking the money, Shafi was not able to find the place. The gang made its first attempt on Beg on 27 June 1998 and finally succeeded two days later when the MP was shot six or seven times before he finally collapsed, ending a bloody chapter of the Mumbai mafia's free run in the Himalayan kingdom.
In an interview to MiD DAY, Farid Tanasha, a key lieutenant of -Chhota Rajan admitted to being one of the main architects of the murder of Nepal's member of Parliament, Mirza Dilshad Baig who was killed in Kathmandu in 1998.
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parliamentarian with the dubious record of links with Dawood Ibrahim's D-company and Pakistan's ISI
Inter-Services Intelligence
The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence , is Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, responsible for providing critical national security intelligence assessment to the Government of Pakistan...
. He was murdered in 1998.
Background
Hailing from DeoriaDeoria
Deoria is a town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of 5 tehsils of Deoria district. The name of the Railway Station is Deoria Sadar.-Ancient:...
near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Mirza began his forays into the underworld around late eighties. He grew in notoriety through car thefts, assault, kidnapping and of course murders, later thought of his antecedents as petty crimes.
Involvement with the Underworld
Mirza's graduation to the big league began after a chance meeting with Dawood IbrahimDawood Ibrahim
Dawood Ibrahim , also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, is the head of the organized crime syndicate [[D-Company]] in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting. He was No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals...
in Mumbai in the early eighties, when both were struggling to carve a niche for themselves in India. Besides, Dawood, Mirza also had links with Chhota Rajan
Chhota Rajan
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan is the boss of a major crime syndicate based in India. He is a former key aide and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim. Starting as a petty thief and bootlegger working for Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan . Chhota Rajan took over the reins of Bada Rajan's...
, Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel , is an Indian, accused of association with Dawood Ibrahim.According to old hats, one of his stories which put him in the spotlight was his encounter with the customs officer...
, the brothers Amar and Ashwin Naik and members of the Pathan syndicate. However, he shot to prominence only after his association with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
Inter-Services Intelligence
The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence , is Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, responsible for providing critical national security intelligence assessment to the Government of Pakistan...
operatives in India and Nepal.
The porous Indo-Nepal border helped him sneak in and out of his home state and into Nepal. From then on, his notoriety grew so much that the UP police announced a reward for his arrest.
Political Career in Nepal
Beg, the elusive crook found Kathmandu safer than UP. Dawood's reputation of transforming crooks into kings in India also helped him in Nepal. Playing the communal card in the election, Mirza represented the Muslim minority in Hindu Nepal and won with a thumping majority. Beg had been elected to the House of Representatives from the Terai district of Kapilvastu in 1994 and held ministerial portfolios in two governments.He resigned from the Nepal Sadbhawana Party
Nepal Sadbhawana Party
The Nepal Sadbhavana Party was a regional political party in Nepal that worked for Madhesi rights. Its founding was in 1985, as the Nepal Sadbhavana Council, by Gajendra Narayan Singh...
, and joined the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party
Rashtriya Prajatantra Party
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party is a Nepalese political party. It is a right-wing pro-monarchy party, formed out of the political elite of the erstwhile Panchayat system, formed on 1990, after reestablishment of democracy in Nepal.In 1997 RPP split after the faction led by pro-monarchy politician...
winning two consecutive terms from the Kapilavastu
Kapilavastu
Kapilavastu is the name of a region of ancient Shakya kingdom that is considered a holy pilgrimage place for Buddhists. The search for the Buddha's birthplace following the accounts left by Xuanzang and Faxian involved various searches in the late 19th century...
constituency in south-west Nepal. Finally, his shady past became his nemesis and began to erode his popularity as a politician. Mumbai's Crime Branch officers believed that Mirza regularly used his Krishna Nagar mansion to shelter gangsters on the run from Indian enforcement agencies.
His residence was also used for other illegal activities including confinement of abductees, drug-trafficking, gun-running and forging of documents.
He was so effective that Dawood, whose reach had spread from Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
to Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
and Colombo
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, regarded Kathmandu as his strongest base. In fact the mafia don even considered shifting to Kathmandu for a while, following the Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
murder. The Indian government had tried to extradite his lieutenant Abu Salem
Abu Salem
Abu Salem is an underworld don originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India. He is convicted for the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood film directors Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan....
for the murder and had turned the heat on the UAE government to secure Salem's custody.However, it was Mirza's declining clout which forced him to change his mind, making him opt for the ISI sanctuary in Karachi.
Mirza's greed turned him towards gun-running, smuggling arms procured from the Afghan Mujahedins and the ISI, into India. The cache of four AK-56s and hand grenades seized by the Andheri police from Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel , is an Indian, accused of association with Dawood Ibrahim.According to old hats, one of his stories which put him in the spotlight was his encounter with the customs officer...
gangsters last month were supplied by Mirza's network, police say.
Mirza's exploits include an aborted bid on the life of UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh
Kalyan Singh
Kalayan Singh is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He has served 3 times as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.-Role in demolition of Babri Masjid:...
in Nainital. Mirza's murder has also stunned the Mumbai underworld as most fugitives have, at some time or the other, used Mirza's good offices for passage out of the country.
Murder
Mirza Dilshad Beg was shot dead on June 29 around 9:30 pm as he was on his way to visit his second wife in Siphal, Chabahil area. As he climbed from his car and was walking towards the residence, killers gunned him down. His driver, who was parking the car, was also killed. In an interview published in the Indian newsmagazine India TodayIndia Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan
Chhota Rajan
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan is the boss of a major crime syndicate based in India. He is a former key aide and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim. Starting as a petty thief and bootlegger working for Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan . Chhota Rajan took over the reins of Bada Rajan's...
took the responsibility of killing Beg and alleged that "through the ISI, he (beg) was spreading terror in India"
Murder Theories
The intelligence reports available with the Indian Authorities, list three reasons why Beg was being targeted. Firstly, while Beg had initially helped Babloo Srivastava obtain a Nepalese passport, he did not come to his rescue when he was eventually arrested in Singapore in 1995. Babloo Srivastava's Nepalese citizenship was cancelled and he was handed over to the Indian authorities. Following Babloo's extradition to India, Beg is understood to have developed a close relationship with one of his girlfriends, Archana Sharma, which also greatly annoyed Babloo.Secondly, following Gulshan Kumar's killing in Mumbai, the main hit-man Vikram Wahi -- a close associate of Babloo Srivastava -- had absconded to Kathmandu and his local hideout was raided by the Nepal police. Even as the modalities for Wahi's surrender were being worked out, his dead body -- hacked into pieces -- was recovered at the Indo-Nepal border near Krishnanagar. Besides Babloo Srivastava, Wahi's associates including Karan Singh Magga -- who was to eventually gun down Beg on 29 June 1998 along with underworld don Chhota Rajan
Chhota Rajan
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan is the boss of a major crime syndicate based in India. He is a former key aide and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim. Starting as a petty thief and bootlegger working for Rajan Nair, also known as Bada Rajan . Chhota Rajan took over the reins of Bada Rajan's...
's associate, Rohit Verma -- harbored a grudge against him.
The third angle to the Nepal MP's killing, the intelligence report states, related to Shafi Mohammad Khan of Krishnanagar who was arrested in a narcotics case by the Nepal Police in Mumbai. Like Babloo Srivastava, he too was of the view that Mirza had made no efforts to secure his release after arrest nor was he extended sufficient help during his trial.
This, along with the internecine gang wars between Chota Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim
Gang wars between Chota Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje , was the sword arm of don Dawood Ibrahim till the two parted ways over the latter’s role in the Bombay blasts. Differences had arisen in 1992 itself after Dawood henchman Subhash Thakur killed three Chhota Rajan groupies...
were the main reasons for Mirza's murder. Chhota Rajan is believed to have contacted Rohit Verma in Nepal to organise the killing and advised him not to strike in Kathmandu. Babloo Srivastava then contacted Shafi Mohammad and gave him some money to arrange for a safe house in Kathmandu. Despite taking the money, Shafi was not able to find the place. The gang made its first attempt on Beg on 27 June 1998 and finally succeeded two days later when the MP was shot six or seven times before he finally collapsed, ending a bloody chapter of the Mumbai mafia's free run in the Himalayan kingdom.
In an interview to MiD DAY, Farid Tanasha, a key lieutenant of -Chhota Rajan admitted to being one of the main architects of the murder of Nepal's member of Parliament, Mirza Dilshad Baig who was killed in Kathmandu in 1998.