Haji Ali Dargah trustee amongst four detained after NIA raids
Four, including Sohail Khandwani, trustee of Haji Ali Dargah and Mahim Dargah have been detained.
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Mumbai, May 10: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out raids in 24 locations in Mumbai against associates and hawala operatives of Indian-origin terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. Four, including Sohail Khandwani, trustee of Haji Ali Dargah and Mahim Dargah have been detained.
These are indulging in Arms smuggling, narco terrorism, money laundering, circulation of FICN and are also involved in terror funding activities with active collaboration with international terror organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad and Al Qaeda.
Salim Qureshi aka Salim Sayyed aka Salim Fruit, an associate of Chhota Shakeel, was also detained at his residence at Grant road in Mumbai. Some important documents were seized from him in the raids.
The raids began at his residence and a CRPF guard has been deployed. In a statement, NIA said that 24 locations were raided across Mumbai in connection to case no. RC-01/2022/NIA/MUM against Dawood Ibrahim. The case was registered suo moto by the NIA on 3rd February 2022.
NIA said that the case pertains to terror, criminal activities of international terrorist network of D company involving Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates including Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikna and Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon alias Tiger Memon.
These are indulging in Arms smuggling, narco terrorism, money laundering, circulation of FICN and are also involved in terror funding activities with active collaboration with international terror organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad and Al Qaeda.
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Besides Sohail Khandwani, Sameer Hingora was detained from Delite apartment in Bandra and one Kayyum was detained from Mahim. Sameer Hingora is film producer who was accused of transporting weapons to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt after the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Salim Qureshi aka Salim Sayyed aka Salim Fruit, an associate of Chhota Shakeel, was also detained at his residence at Grant road in Mumbai. Some important documents were seized from him in the raids.