Former Delhi Police chief Neeraj Kumar denied the statement

Janjivan Bureau
NEW DELHI: In Dawood Ibrhahim surrender case former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar has denied the statment. But he accepted that he had talked to Dawood. Neeraj Kumar also claimed to have spoken to Dawood Ibrahim three times in June 1994.
In June 1994, Neeraj Kumar was with the CBI and he was leading the agency’s probe into 1993 Mumbai blasts.
Earlier Kumar claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the mastermind of the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai that claimed around 300 lives, wanted to surrender but the CBI did not agree to it.
“I spoke to a jittery Dawood three times in June 1994… He seemed to be toying with the idea of surrendering but had one worry – his rival gangs could finish him off if he returned to India.
“Dawood was worried that his rivals may kill him if he would come back. I played along and told him that the CBI would take care of his safety if he were to return but before we could actually talk terms of surrender, my bosses in the CBI told me to back off,” Neeraj Kumar says.