CBI wants to probe about 'politician' who helped Davy escape

New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) India's premier investigative
agency, the CBI, wishes to write "the last chapter" of the
Purulia arms drop case as the agency wants to know the name of
a politician, if any, who had helped the main accused Kim Davy
escape from Mumbai airport.
Source in the agency said the Centre Bureau of
Investigation is ready to probe the mysterious escape of
Purulia arms drop case accused Kim Davy with the alleged help
of a politician from Mumbai airport, if he gives details about
him during his trial before Indian courts after his
extradition from Denmark.
Sources in the agency said the "last chapter of this
mystery will be written by Davy himself" as the CBI so far has
not found involvement of any politician in the Purulia arms
drop "conspiracy".
"The details about the escape can only be provided by
Kim Davy. Let him come to India and say in the court whatever
he is claiming through media interviews. Once he gives his
statement in the court, we are ready to probe in every
possible lead provided by him," a senior official of the
agency said.
Davy, in a media interview, had alleged an MP from
Bihar had helped him escape from the country to Denmark after
his infamous air-dropping operation of sophisticated weapons
in Purulia in West Bengal on the night of December 17, 1995.
A CBI team has recently returned from Denmark where a
five-judge bench of the Danish High Court, first to be
constituted since 1957, concluded hearing extradition case of
Davy. The bench is likely to pronounce its decision in the
case before the start of their summer vacations which begin
some time in July.
Terming the claims of Davy as "diversionary" tactic to
deflect the attention from core issue of his extradition,
sources in the agency said the Danish High Court is not
looking at the "conspiracy" or the "criminality" in the case
as that part will be decided by Indian courts during trial.
"The Danish court is only looking at the issue of his
extradition to India. The Indian government has already given
two major assurances -- one, Davy will not be given any death
penalty and second, if proven guilty, he will serve sentence
in a Danish prison. He has to be extradited only for standing
trial before an Indian court," a CBI official said.
Sources said if Davy is extradited to India, he will
get a fair trial during which he will be free to unravel all
the details about the conspiracy and his mysterious escape.
They said if he makes those allegations before a court
during his deposition, the agency will certainly try to
corroborate them with hard evidence and bring the guilty to
the book.
After getting assurances from India, the Danish
government ordered extradition of Davy. This order was
challenged by Davy in a city court which rejected the order.
The Danish government appealed against the decision in the
high court which has concluded the hearing on May 19.
The CBI, which is not a party to the case, had sent a
team of officials to "assist" the Danish prosecution with
facts and evidences about court system in India, the fairness
and independence of judiciary system and media to convince
that Davy's human rights will be protected here.