DAWOOD’S SURRENDER OFFER WAS CONDITIONAL, SAYS PAWAR

MUMBAI: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar said senior advocate Ram Jethmalani had contacted him over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s willingness to surrender, but the conditions put forward were not acceptable to the state government. The offer was made during Pawar’s tenure as Chief Minister in the 1990s. “It is true that Ram Jethmalani had given a proposal about Dawood’s willingness to return. But there was a condition that Dawood should not be kept in jail, but be allowed to remain in a house. This was not acceptable. We said he had to face the law,” Pawar told reporters. Dawood is a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.