1992 JJ hospital shootout: Accused arrested after 32 years
Tribhuvan Rampati Singh was named as an accused in the case but had been absconding, living with a changed identity in Uttar Pradesh.
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On September 12, 1992, unknown assailants entered the hospital and carried out a shootout. (File photo)AN ACCUSED in the J J Hospital shootout case was arrested by the Mumbai police after 32 years. Tribhuvan Rampati Singh was produced before a special court in Mumbai on Saturday and sent to police custody till October 25. Singh was named as an accused in the case but had been absconding, living with a changed identity in Uttar Pradesh.
Recently, the police probe showed that Singh, who is now in his 60s, was an undertrial prisoner in a jail in Mirzapur and sought his production. The court had on September 30 issued a production warrant against Singh and directed the jail authority to produce him before it in Mumbai.
In 1992, two men Shailesh Haldankar and Bipin Shere were arrested in an attempted murder case and were admitted to state-run J J Hospital as they had sustained injuries. On September 12, 1992, unknown assailants entered the hospital and carried out a shootout, killing Haldankar and two police constables guarding him. The police had claimed that Haldankar was a member of the Arun Gawli gang. The shootout was a fallout of the murder of Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law, Ismail Parkar, who was allegedly gunned down by Gawli gang members.
Seeking his custody, special public prosecutor Sunil Gonsalves submitted that Singh had received bullet injuries in the firing and had subsequently managed to flee. He had first escaped to Surat, got himself operated on and later changed his identity to evade arrest, he said. The prosecutor submitted that the statement of the doctor who had treated Singh then was recorded. Singh’s custody was needed to examine and corroborate the injuries he suffered then and probe into his false identity, the police said. Previously, two others were convicted in the case, the police told the court.
In 2018, the police had also arrested absconding accused Mohammed Farooq Yasin Mansoor. He is currently in custody.
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