Author: PTI
Publication: The New Indian Express
Date: June 7, 2009
URL: httpSe://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Dawoods+key+aide+arrested+in+Bangladesh&artid=XyM6X8HxiPo=&ctionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&
In a setback to fugitive underworld Don Dawood
Ibrahim, the Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested one of his key aides here,
even as a nationwide manhunt was underway to nab members of his network following
detention of two major operatives of the gang.
"We (detective branch of police) today
arrested Arif alias Chachcha from Mohammadpur" area of the city, a police
spokesman told PTI.
Arif, one of the top operatives of the Dawood
network in Bangladesh, was living in Dhaka identifying himself as a member
of the Urdu-speaking stranded Pakistani community or Bihari since 2001, when
he fled India to evade a murder charge, the spokesman said.
Soon after his arrest, Arif was placed under
an eight-day police remand under a court order to be grilled for information
about the network as he was produced before metropolitan magistrate Tania
Kamal.
During initial interrogation, officials said,
Arif disclosed that he was in constant touch with Dawood's second-in-command
Chhota Shakil while they have a network of over 100 men in Bangladesh who
included both Indian nationals and some "influential Bangladeshis".
Arif married a Bangladeshi woman and he was
receiving Taka 60,000 from Chhota Shakil per month.
