'Dawood beat up his brother for sending Kalashnikovs to Dutt'

Pakistan-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim had beaten up his brother Anees Ibrahim “black and blue” when he came to know that he had sent Kalashnikovs to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.

Dutt, 56, is currently undergoing sentence at Pune’s Yerawada jail and his jail term ends next year.

In his book “Dial D for Don”, former Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who during his stint with the CBI had investigated the March 12, 1993, serial blasts in Mumbai, has revealed this fact. In the book, Kumar has devoted a chapter on his telephonic conversations with Dawood, who was wanted in the serial blast case.

“When I asked Dawood if he could deny Anees sending weapons to Sanjay Dutt, he confirmed that the filmstar has indeed been sent arms by his younger brother. However, that has nothing to do with the blasts. Sanjay Dutt had come in close contact with Anees Ibrahim during the shooting of the film “Yalgaar” in Dubai,” Neeraj Kumar.

The actor had requested  Anees to send the weapons to him for his own security and for the security of his family members in the wake of communal riots in Mumbai.

“In fact, that Anees had obliged Sanjay Dutt but it was not in his (D’s) knowledge. Later when D learned that Anees has sent weapons to Sanjay Dutt without his knowledge and approval, he had beat up Anees black and blue. D said that by making this admission, he was only trying to convince me that he was being honest. He knew that in the process, he had gone to the extent of implicating his own brother,” he writes. During one of the conversations, he said: “Saheb, mujhe yeh sab karna hota to mujhe hathiyar bhejne ki zaroorat nahi hoti. Hamare ladkon ke paas kaafi hathiyar pade hain.” (Sir, if I had to do all this, I need not have sent any weapons. My boys have enough at hand.)”