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Dawood, Haseena send city police into a tizzy

'Dawood Ibrahim and his wife Haseena are arriving at Mumbai airport from London at 11:25 am on Tuesday.’

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MUMBAI: 'Dawood Ibrahim and his wife Haseena are arriving at Mumbai airport from London at 11:25 am on Tuesday.’ This tip-off sent the entire Mumbai Police administration into a tizzy.

Minutes later, an army of personnel drawn from the police and other security agencies was waiting anxiously for the couple at the airport.

As soon as the flight landed, the duo was whisked away to the Mumbai Police headquarters at Crawford Market. Police officers, old and new, grilled them for hours, checked and rechecked their papers, and even tugged at Dawood’s beard and moustache, until they realised that the couple were only namesakes of the most wanted gangster and his wife.

Their questioning revealed that this Dawood Ibrahim works as a sweeper in London. Born in 1957, at least seven years after the gangster, he was on his way to Surat in Gujarat, his home, to attend a relative’s wedding.

Leaving nothing to chance, the police then summoned this Dawood’s relatives to Mumbai and checked their credentials. Even senior officers, who had seen and interrogated the gangster in the 1970s and 1980s, were called to ensure that this was not the real Dawood who had undergone plastic surgery.

Crime branch chief Rakesh Maria said the police had received information that someone by the name Dawood Ibrahim was arriving at the international airport and they just wanted to verify who the person was. “He was brought to the police headquarters for verification,” Maria said. “After verifying his credentials, he was allowed to go.”
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