Making last minute changes in the itinerary to keep the gangster away from media glare, the cops got Brijesh off at the Kashi railway station — 10 km from Varanasi railway station— and carried him under tight security to the Varanasi Central Jail. Sources say the coach in which Brijesh was brought also had among other passengers, at least eight of his confidants, including his nephew Sushil Singh, a BSP MLA from Dhanapur (Chandauli).

A special team of Delhi police had arrested Brijesh in Orissa in connection with an extortion case on January 24 this year. Subsequently, the Mumbai police obtained his remand from the Delhi police for his involvement in the 1992 J J Hospital shootout case. On 29 April, Mumbai Sessions Court had allowed the UP Police to take him in its custody.

Later in the day, he was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate(CJM) S K Singh. After the hearing, his counsel Mahendra Mohan Mishra said that while the CJM sent his client to judicial custody till May 12 at the Varanasi Central Jail, he accepted the defence request of home-cooked food for Brijesh in the jail.

SP (Varanasi City) Rajiv Malhotra said,” Brijesh has been kept at a high-security isolated chamber in the jail.” The jail sources say that he is lodged in the highly sensitive barrack of Circle 1, which has been housing three J&K terrorists for the last four years.