 |
||
|
||
|
||
Nineteen members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang have been chargesheeted for allegedly distributing, at the behest of Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence, fake currency notes to the tune of Rs 10 million in Bombay and other parts of the country.
The chargesheet was filed by the police on Thursday, in a special court hearing cases tried under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
Designated Judge A P Bhangale remanded them to judicial custody till January 17.
Those chargesheeted are Akhtar Moharam Hussain Faruki, Abdul Kadar Mohammed Hanif Batki, Mohammed Aslam Abdul Memon, Ismael Imran Sayyed, Javed Mustafa Khan, Mohammed Jiaul Zianul Abeidi Sayyed, Manish Ashwin Tanna, Tariq Mumtaz Khan, Anil Kumar, Ashraf Wah Loria, Vinod Raoji Chunada, Shamshed Ali Naushad Ali Qureshi, Maqsood Mohammed Hussain, Milind Mayekar, Ashok Mange, Abubakar Jargun Shah, Sarfaraz Qurshed Shaikh, Mohammed Siddiqui Mohammed Munshi and Shaukat Ali Habib.
Five others are absconding and will be tried separately when arrested. They are Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, his brother Annees, Aftab Yusuf Batki, Iqbal Mujahid and Habib Khan. Another accused, Ashwin Premji Bhanushali, has turned approver.
Unfolding the modus operandi, public
prosecutor Rohini Salian alleged that Dawood and his brother Anees made
arrangements in Pakistan to send fake Indian currency notes to Aftab Bhatki
and Habib Khan in Dubai. They in turn sent parcels of counterfeit currency
notes to India through conduits by providing them money and free tickets,
Salian added.
|
||
|
||
|
||