04 February,2009 05:15 AM IST | | PTI
After efforts for months to get his custody, failure to provide a court a remand application for the custody of gangster Babloo Srivastava resulted in the police having to transport him back to a jail in Uttar Pradesh.
Srivastava, whose real name is Om Prakash Srivastava, is presently lodged in the Bareilly jail in Uttar Pradesh serving a life term after being convicted in a murder case. He was brought to the city in connection with a 1994 kidnapping case.
Yesterday he was produced before a special Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court but the officials from the D N Nagar police station sought time to find the required documents in the case.
However, today he was produced before special TADA judge D U Mulla where the police said that they had been unable to find the required documents and no application seeking remand was filed.
The court then remanded Srivastava to judicial custody and said he should be taken back to the Bareilly jail.
The next hearing of the case is on February 16. Shrivastav is accused of conspiring to kidnap a builder, Vishwanath Mandal in south Nariman point in 1994. Six persons, including Srivastava, are accused in the case.
Three persons have been acquitted, another accused Sanjay Khanna is absconding while another died prior to the trial. Srivastava, extradited from Singapore in 1995, was not produced before the Mumbai court earlier since there were other cases pending against him in other cities like Delhi, Lucknow and Kanpur.
