Lucknow, Dec. 21: Dawood Ibrahim's Hyundai Accent could soon be zipping across Delhi's streets - carrying patients.

Just that the car doesn't belong any more to the fugitive don.

Swami Chakrapani Maharaj of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, who bought the 15-year-old car at an auction held under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976, said he planned to convert the 2000-model green sedan into an ambulance and dedicate it to Delhi's residents.

"Very soon, the car, which was owned by Dawood before me, would be seen on the roads of Delhi, carrying patients from one place to another. It will be redesigned as an ambulance," Chakrapani said last evening in Etawah, where he had gone to attend a religious event.

The self-styled religious guru, who bid for the car at the auction in Mumbai on December 9 and paid Rs 3,20,000 for it, claimed he wanted to rid people of the fear of the underworld don, considered the mastermind of the 1993 Bombay blasts.

Chakrapani had then said he would set the car on fire "to send out a message" that "the people of this country do not fear absconders like Dawood".

Two days later, he had registered an FIR with Delhi's Mandir Marg police station saying he had been getting threatening text messages from Dawood's aides. The swami, who has ashrams at many places, including New Delhi and Vrindavan, however, insisted there was no question of feeling "afraid of anyone" and he would go ahead with his plan to burn the car.

Later, he had also thought of selling it as scrap. Now he has changed his mind again.

At yesterday's event, Samajwadi Party general secretary and Uttar Pradesh public works minister Shivpal Singh Yadav was present when Chakrapani revealed his latest plan.

Shivpal spoke too but not on the sedan's future.#