New Delhi, April 13
Almost 15 years after the pilot of the “Purulia arms drop case”, Kim Davy, escaped from the custody, India will question him and also ensure that he undergoes punishment here. He is expected to be extradited from Denmark within the next two-three months, sources here confirmed.

Kim Davy will face Indian courts for his role in dropping weapons in December 1995. He had mysteriously escaped from custody in Mumbai. Since then he has been on the run with the Interpol issuing a red corner notice in 2002.

Source here said contrary to media reports emerging from Denmark, Davy will be extradited to India and his will undergo sentence here and not in Denmark as being hinted in media reports. “There is no question of his sentence being carried out elsewhere”, said a top official while refusing to comment if the Purulia arms drop case would re-open afresh or will India proceeded against Davy only. The legal formalities in Denmark will be completed in the next two-three months. The Danish police nabbed Davy a few days ago.

Six other foreigners, all accomplices of Davy, Peter Bleach, a Briton and five Latvian crew members, Alexander Klichine, alias Sasha, Igor Moskvitine, alias Alexandre, Oleg Gaidach, Evgueni Antimenko and Igor Timmerman, were sentenced under the Arms Act and the Explosives Act. They underwent a prison term of more than seven years before they were controversially released on a Presidential pardon during the BJP-led NDA rule. Britain and Russia has exerted pressure and India succumbed. A cache of arms were air-dropped over Purulia in West Bengal in December 1995 and this included AK-47 rifles and rocket launchers.

Reports in Danish newspapers have quoted the Justice Ministry of Denmark saying that that Davy will be returned to Denmark to serve his sentence within three weeks of judgment in India. The reports said Davy would have access to Danish diplomats.

Indian security agencies so far do not know who prompted Davy to carry out the audacious arms drop. Indian security agencies believe the Purulia arms drop conspiracy has its origins in Copenhagen where it was hatched sometime in the summer of 1995. It was here that Davy met Peter Bleach and a few others. They formed a group and bought an AN-26 aircraft in Latvia, which had then recently broken off from the erstwhile USSR. It was Davy who sourced the weapons from Bulgaria on forged papers that showed they were intended for the Bangladesh Army.

The plane made a mysterious stopover in Karachi from December 13-17, 1995, before the drop of weapons. After dropping the arms in Purulia they flew on to Phuket in Thailand. The plane was intercepted on its way back.