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| Yakub Memon was lured back to India with promise of fair treatement, say former Raw and CBI officers |
Staff correspondent, July 29, 2015, NewsCrunch
A former CBI official Shantanu Sen says Indian security agencies promised fair treatment to Yakub Memon to make him come back to the country.
Shantanu Sen was the head of the CBI's special task force that investigated the Mumbai blasts.
He told NDTV that there were disagreements within the Memon clan; Yakub Memon and his family felt unsafe and claustrophobic in Pakistan.
Though Tiger Memon was against their return to India, several Indian agencies including the Intelligence Bureau, and R&AW persuaded them to come back to India.
"We offered them the great justice of India," says Shantanu Sen, while adding that there were no false promises.
But another CBI officer OP Chattwal told NDTV that there were no instructions from anyone to show any favour to Yakub Memon. He also says evidence was not handed over by Yakub Memon, but was recovered from him.
The two voices emerging from CBI supports the argument of B Raman, former RAW official who said Indian agencies had let Yakub Memon down.
In an article written posthumously Raman says Yakub Memon returned on his own and was very cooperative during the investigation. His testimony was crucial in nailing Pakistan's role in Mumbai blasts.
Raman, who retired just after Memon's return to India, says Indian security agencies withheld Yakub Memon's cooperation from the court, which eventually lead to his death sentence.
A promise made by one section of security agencies, was not honoured by another. Many say Yakub Memon was let down as the P V Narasimha Rao government feared a backlash if the deal became public.