Auctioned ‘Dawood’ Car Ends As Scrap, To Be Burnt In Delhi

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• Swami Chakrapani of All India Hindu Mahasabha had made the winning bid for a Hyundai Accent car, which is in such a poor condition that he now intends to burn it publicly in the capital

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While a South Central Mumbai hotel linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was purchased by a former journalist for an eye-popping price of Rs 4.28 crore last week, Swami Chakrapani of All India Hindu Mahasabha had made the winning bid for a Hyundai Accent car, which is in such a poor condition that he now intends to burn it publicly in the capital.

Chakrapani, who claims to be the president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha, came from New Delhi to participate in an auction of seven properties forfeited under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976 (SAFEMA) believing all seven properties were linked to Dawood.

In the open auction conducted on December 9, he bid for a 2000-model of a green Hyundai Accent sedan and won it for a price of Rs 32,000. The only other bidder for the car was a scrap dealer who had made a bid of Rs 30,000.

His Mahasabha colleague and Secretary General Indira Tiwari then returned to Mumbai to pay the amount, and much to her chagrin, discovered that the property wasn’t linked to Dawood at all. “The owner of the vehicle is one Randhir Singh from Thane. After completing the formalities at Safema office, I had to first go to Tardeo Regional Transport Office. Then I learnt that the car was registered with the Thane RTO. In Thane, we got the registration cancellation certificate, submitted the number plate, and wanted to surrender it to Thane RTO for scrap,” Tiwari told The Hindu on Wednesday evening. The car is now with a scrap dealer who has been instructed to take it to Delhi.

“When we decided to purchase it, we did not intend to use it for anything other than a social purpose. We rushed to Mumbai a day before the auction, and we were not allowed to inspect the car. But, the car condition was so poor that there was no alternative but to relegate it to scrap,” Tiwari said, annoyed that a fear psychosis was created around the Safema auction and all properties were dubbed as sale of Dawood’s properties.

“This whole auction is a drama that needs to be exposed. If the government really intended to make public use of these properties, why did they not open government offices, schools or social organizations in these properties instead of auctioning them and building up a fear psychosis aided by the media hype around them,” said Tiwari. Now, Chakrapani has announced that he would publicly burn the car as a symbolic way to protest against Dawood Ibrahim. “I would not have come to Mumbai for the auction it not been for reports that a Mumbai journalist was threatened by the Dawood gang. I wanted to send out the message that even if the government is weak, the people of this country do not fear absconders like Dawood. I wanted to convert it into an ambulance.

But now that it cannot be converted into an ambulance, we will burn it publicly,” Chakrapani told this paper on telephone from Delhi. He claimed he had received a threatening SMS from Dawood’s associates and had lodged an FIR at Mandir Marg police station in Delhi on December 11.

Asked if he had asked for security, Chakrapani said, “No, I don’t need security. I am a man who has been petitioning the courts with regard to Ram Janmabhoomi issue. I am not afraid of anyone. I will go ahead and burn the car once it comes to Delhi.”