Assistant Commissioner of Police (Retd.) (ACP) Shamsher Pathan on Tuesday downplayed underworld don Chhota Rajan's claim that some Mumbai cops are linked to Dawood Ibrahim and said that there might be some conspiracy behind such an assertion.

'There seems to be a conspiracy in this statement by him. Maybe he doesn't want to come to the Mumbai Police or he is being saved from the Mumbai Police,' he told ANI. Pathan said the government should not ponder much over his statement and hand him over to the Mumbai Police as most of his cases are registered with them.