Kaskar's aides spent at dance bars, say cops

The Thane Crime Branch's Anti-Extortion Cell, probing the extortion racket allegedly run by Iqbal Kaskar and his aides, on Saturday revealed that his aides used to splurge large amounts of money in dance bars. All the three accused are currently in police custody in connection with a jewellery extortion case worth Rs 15 lakh from a Thane-based jeweller. On Friday, the police managed to recover a part of this extorted jewellery.

During interrogation, one of the aides, Israr, told the police that they spent cash in dance bars and sold the jewellery to a jeweller in Mahim. Following his revealation, the police approached the jeweller in Mahim and recovered the gold worth Rs 3 lakh from him. "We will return the gold to the complainant and are in the process of getting back the remaining gold as well," said a police officer from Thane crime branch.