Bali: Indonesian authorities said Monday they will deport an Indian fugitive shortly after arresting the alleged organized crime boss on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as "Chhota Rajan," was on the Interpol's most wanted list for two decades, said Bali police spokesman Heri Wiyanto. Wiyanto said that Nikalje was arrested Sunday after arriving at Bali's airport from Sydney, based on a red notice from Interpol and following a tip from Australian authorities in Canberra.
While the authorities were still working on confirming the identity of the man arrested, there were reports in the media that the man arrested by the authorities was serial killer Cyanide Mohan and not Chhota Rajan.
An official, the Denpasar Police chief detective Reinhard Habonaran Nainggolan had told reporters earlier that the man's name was Mohan Kumar, 56, known in Indian media as Cyanide Mohan, a serial killer who preyed on women looking for marriage.
However, officials later clarified that the previous arrest report on Kumar was wrong, and it was confirmed that Chhota Rajan arrived in Indonesia carrying a passport under the alias Mohan Kumar, thus causing the confusion over his real identity.
Rajan told Indonesian police that he had been hiding in Australia for seven years and flew to Bali by a Garuda Indonesia flight for vacation.
