India close to catch Purulia plotter

New Delhi: The CBI is now close to successfully extraditing another high profile accused after underworld don Abu Salem. This is the mastermind of the 11-year-old Purulia arms drop – Kim Davy.

He is Niels Christian Nielsen, better known as Kim Davy. He is on Interpol's search list and desperately wanted by Indian government. But Kim Davy roams freely in Denmark today and drives his business from Copenhagen.

But his freedom might be short lived because soon he might have to be back in the country where he learnt his Yoga.

The Indian government, after a flurry of high-level meetings in the last two weeks, has almost agreed to a list of conditions imposed by Denmark to extradite the 44-year-old who is the prime accused in the sensational air-dropping of 77 wooden crates of sophisticated arms and ammunition in West Bengal's Purulia district.

300 Bulgarian-made AK-47 assault rifles, ten rocket launchers, and 100 antitank grenades were airdropped by an AN-26 aircraft over some villages in Purulia on the night of December 17, 1995.

Davy was caught but he managed to escape from Mumbai airport five days later.

The CBI had sent their extradition request for Kim Davy to Denmark in 2002 and in 2005 the Danish authorities laid down their terms for his extradition.

The conditions include – arms dropping conditions, he will be tried only for the Purulia arms drop case. The trial will only take place in a regular court and not any special tribunal. Death penalty will not be imposed. He will be repatriated to Denmark for his period of imprisonment, if the court gives him any.

Sources in the Home Ministry told CNN-IBN that the Indian government agreed to let Davy serve his prison sentence in Denmark after a lot of debate Davy can extradite by early net year.

But he also has the option to go to the highest court in Denmark and then appeal to the Queen of Denmark. But Danish authorities have told CNN-IBN that he will find it difficult of because of a colourful past – a past that includes crimes committed in Denmark including a bank robbery.