Dacoit Jagan wants out if he gets his lady love
Jupinderjit Singh
Tribune News Service
Jaipur, January 30
Dacoit Jagan Gujjar wants the government to give love a chance.
On the lam for 20 years and wanted in many states for “heinous” crimes, Jagan says he longs to live with Komesh Gujjar, his lady love, who is in police custody since November ’08.
Police officials on his trail say Jagan has spoken to a TV channel and has also approached some of them saying he would give up if he got Komesh.
“If Jagan wishes to lay down arms, that’s good news but I don’t think the law would allow him to live with his girl, at least not immediately after he surrenders, if he does,” Superintendent of Police Sarwar, who is posted in Karoli, said.
Mother-to-be Komesh, an active member of Jagan's gang, was arrested near Dholpur while running away from the police. She suffered bullet injuries because of which she lost her baby. Her life was saved with great difficulty and remained hospitalised at SMS Hospital, Jaipur. At present, she has been put up in the Dholpur district jail.
Police sources say Jagan, always a ladies' man, was very fond of Komesh and was believed to have been very upset when Komesh was arrested and their baby died in her womb.
SP Sarwar is not sure if Jagan is serious about giving up. “I can't say if he actually loves Komesh. I don't trust this guy. He is known for his theatrics and he is an old fox. We will wait and watch.”
During the Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan, Jagan threatened to blow up chief minister Vasundhra Raje's ancestral palace in Dholpur.
He is known as the “king of the ravines” and any company wanting to set up projects in areas under his watch has to please him first.
But, in these times of economic difficulty, new projects are in limbo and that may have brought Jagan’s earnings down. Or, is it that Cupid’s arrows are too much with him?..( published in The Tribune, page one Anchor January 31, 2009)
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