Gangster-turned-builder Ashwin Naik and two of his aides were released from Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai on Wednesday, a day after a sessions court acquitted him and some others in a 2015 case of extortion, an official said.
Gangster Ashwin Naik today met Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray at the latter's residence in suburban Bandra.
Gangster-turned-builder Ashwin Naik was on Monday arrested in a death threat case soon after he was sent to judicial custody by a court in an extortion case, police said.
The six-day Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm Rally through Rajasthan is a test of skill and endurance, says Aakash S Paul.
'After Rajan is back in India, our resident dons are almost down. I won't say that they are out. So, now the obvious question is about Dawood, and the present government, I think, is more than willing to address that issue.' 'I think the political system made this kind of people; the corporate world made this kind of people. I have mentioned in my book that even the banks were using these outlaws to get their money back.'
Though on the face of it appeared Pasbola was asking a series of odd questions that would be difficult for anyone to answer, there was, it gradually emerged, it seemed, a method to the questioning. Somehow, somewhere instinctively, Pasbola knew there was something not right with Riyaz's account.
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