[1] Mirza's graduation to the big league began after a chance meeting with Dawood Ibrahim in Mumbai in the early eighties, when both were struggling to carve a niche for themselves in India.
Playing the communal card in the election, Mirza represented the Muslim minority in Hindu-majority Nepal and won with a thumping majority.
Mumbai's Crime Branch officers believed that Mirza regularly used his Krishna Nagar mansion to shelter gangsters on the run from Indian enforcement agencies.
Mirza's exploits allegedly include an aborted bid on the life of UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh in Nainital.
Mirza Dilshad Beg was shot dead on June 29, 1998, around 9:30 pm as he was on his way to visit his second wife in Siphal, Kathmandu, Chabahil area.
Firstly, while Beg had initially helped Babloo Srivastava obtain a Nepalese passport, he did not come to his rescue when he was eventually arrested in Singapore in 1995.
Secondly, following Gulshan Kumar's killing in Mumbai, the main hit-man Vikram Wahi—a close associate of Babloo Srivastava—had absconded to Kathmandu and his local hideout was raided by the Nepal police.
Like Babloo Srivastava, he too was of the view that Mirza had made no efforts to secure his release after arrest nor was he extended sufficient help during his trial.
In an interview to MiD DAY, Farid Tanasha, a key lieutenant of Chhota Rajan, admitted to being one of the main architects of the murder of Nepal's member of Parliament, Mirza Dilshad Baig who was killed in Kathmandu in 1998.