Days after the arrest of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar and his two aides in connection with the extortion of a builder and a jeweller in Thane, the police have now come across Kaskar's construction 'business' as well.
According to police sources, apart from extortion, Kaskar is allegedly involved in a construction 'business' wherein he would threaten tenants to vacate their flats for redevelopment. The police on Friday had questioned Kaskar's partner, a builder from Mumbai who would take contracts of construction work for redevelopment or development projects.
The police said, Kaskar was allegedly in a sleeping partnership with the builder. The latter would use Kaskar and Dawood's name to threaten landowners or tenants, and would take help of other aides of Kaskar to forcefully vacate their premises where he would carry out redevelopment. In return, the builder would give a commission or a profit margin to Kaskar in cash.
"We have questioned the builder and it has been revealed that he was running a construction business with Kaskar. Although Kaskar had not invested in the business; he would get a large profit margin in every project. All the transactions were made in cash and we are trying to trace the money trail," said a police officer.
The police are also on the lookout for one RC Angadia, who on behalf of gangster Chhota Shakeel, would collect money from the fourth accused, Pankaj Gangar arrested in the case.
Gangar would provide Rs 15 lakh to Angadia for Shakeel, who is in Pakistan, through hawala channels. The police suspects that Shakeel is also running a matka betting racket in Mumbai and other cities and the money would be sent by the accused as his commission in the business.
"The Angadia operator and another middleman will be arrested soon. Our team is also in Bihar to look for two of Kaskar's shooters and raids are being conducted at several locations there with the help of a Special Task Force. The shooters are hiding at the Nepal border," said another senior officer.
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