Nepal's controversial media tycoon Jamim Shah, who allegedly had links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, was murdered in the heart of the
capital on the orders of the jailed Indian mafia don Babloo Srivastava, the police said Monday.
Madan Khadka, Nepal's Metropolitan Police chief, said Deepak Shahi alias Babblu plotted the murder on the order of Srivastava, the Indian gangster jailed in Lucknow, a north Indian city.
Khadka said Shrivastava is the mastermind of the murder plot, and his henchmen materialised it, according to the Nepalnews online.
According to the police, Babloo and Bharat Nepali, a Singapore-based former henchman of mafia kingpin Chhota Rajan, were the international links in the high-profile murder case, the report said.
Shahi met different gangs in Nepal as part of the murder plot, the police said, without giving any details.
Home Minister Bhim Rawal was today quizzed by a top parliamentary Committee over Shah's killing.
Forty-three-year-old Shah, the chairman of Spacetime Network Pvt Ltd, was gunned down at Lazimpat in Kathmandu last Sunday.
Prakash Chhettri, a Sub-Inspector, has been arrested for suspected involvement in the murder, the report said.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal had visited the family of slain media entrepreneur and assured that the government would bring his assailants to book.