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NCB arrests Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar in drugs case

Kaskar’s name cropped up during the investigations of recent seizures of contraband by the federal anti-narcotics agency
Last Updated 23 June 2021, 14:08 IST

Notorious underworld don and global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday.

Kaskar’s name cropped up during the investigations of recent seizures of contraband by the federal anti-narcotics agency.

Kaskar is accused of running the operations of Dawood Ibrahim in Mumbai for the past couple of decades.

The NCB has found Kaskar's involvement in connection with the seizure of 15 kg of hashish.

It may be recalled that Kaskar was deported from the UAE in 2003 along with underworld gangster Ejaz Patha, the latter was recently sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by a TADA court in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case (he died while undergoing sentence).

Kaskar was booked for the murder of a Customs Department informer. He was also accused in the Sara-Sahara case - an illegal shopping complex that came up in Crawford Market, very near to the Mumbai police headquarters. He was booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) but was acquitted in both cases.

In February 2015, he was arrested by the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Thane police in a case of extortion – and he had been lodged in the jail in that case as an undertrial.

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(Published 23 June 2021, 10:17 IST)

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