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BL KAK
NEW DELHI, May 14
A classified report of Intelligence Bureau (IB) reveals deep penetration of the mafia don, Dawood Ibrahim, into the Mumbai film industry--widely known as Bollywood. The revelation is based on the none-too-old interrogation of two top gangsters of the Dawood gang.
These two gangsters have been identifed as Riaz Ahmed Siddiqui and Rajkumar Ramads Sharma. Both of them have already been deported to India from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the report, investment of gang money in film production, arrangement of actors, cornering of film distribution rights and extortion are the four major areas where Dawood Ibrahim plays an important role through his gangsters.
Interogation is said to have reveaed that while Riaz used to handle the affairs of Dawood and hius brother Noora in the film industry from Dubai, Sharma used to organise the extortion racket in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Surat for another of Dawood's brothers, Iqbal Kaskar, through a group of 'shooters' who have been backing his extortion activities.
The IB, in its report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), says that Riaz had joined the Dawood group in mid-eighties and operated in Mumbai where he was involved in the murder of a businessan Pradeep Jain, and an Ansari father-son duo (sic). He had once managed to get out of jail in the COFEPOSA detention case and had absconded to Dubai in the nineties.
The IB claims that Riaz admitted in preliminary questioning that during his frequent visits to Karachi to meet Dawood, he was allowed by the autyhorities to bypas immigration formalities so that there was no trace of his visits to Pakistan. In other words, his visits to Karachi were with the connivance of Pak authorities, who are known to extend all help and patronage to the Dawood Ibrahim gang, says the IB report.
It says that the other deported criminal, Rajkumar Ramdas Sharma, was involved in three cases in Mumbai, including two of murder. In Dubai, he was the key operative for Iqbal Kaskar, who was deported to India from Dubai not long ago.
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