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: It was a ride down memory lane in a Tata Sumo for the man who probably never contemplated visiting Bangalore again. "Though he was looking depressed, he enjoyed the view of Bangalore from the airport to the CBI office in RT Nagar," said Muthappa Rai's escort officer.

His homecoming was an unforeseen twist to a decade-old saga of heinous crime. In the end, 46-year-old Muthappa Rai was done in for a relatively tame reason: possessing a fake passport. This, when over a dozen cases are pending against him in Karnataka's courts.

In a swift operation, the Karnataka police ensured his deportation from Dubai, where he was detained. The criminal was hand-cuffed and brought to Bangalore, the city he had fled in 1996. A visibly composed Rai arrived from New Delhi on Thursday morning on the same flight as former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.

Rai is supposed to have grown nostalgic when the flight captain announced the arrival into Bangalore. On deplaning, he looked around and observed that "the airport has changed".

Rai did not attempt to cover his face on seeing the gaggle of press photographers. It was quite evident he was worried about his safety: aboard the Tata Sumo, he remained ...

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