The Central Bureau of Investigation is still groping in the dark on the veracity of the reports of detention of Anees Ibrahim, brother of mob boss Dawood Ibrahim, in Saudi Arabia as authorities in Riyadh were still to respond to its query.
The attached assets include 15 commercial and residential properties belonging to the 'family members' of Mirchi. They include a hotel called Midwest Hotel Apartment, the ED said. They are valued at Rs 203.27 crore and have been provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the central probe agency said in a statement.
Describing Ottavio Quattrochhi as "no different a fugitive" than underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Leader of the Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani asked Singh, who was present in the House, why the government was having a "soft corner" for the Italian.
Assistant Commissioner Kiran Acharekar has been arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
The IB said they have informed all those involved in investigating cases pertaining to terror not to take such news seriously and go about their investigation in a routine manner.
Mishra's bail plea was rejected in a 7-year-old case of kidnapping, extortion and robbery.
The Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust bought Hotel Raunaq Afroz, Shabnam Guest House and six rooms in Damarwala building.
Had Yakub not agreed to surrender, the CBI could not have tried any of the Memons.
Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has received a letter carrying threat to harm his family if he does not pay up Rs 50 lakh while the police said they are taking "all precautionary measures" and that his security has been further tightened.
'Bush can climb over a tower and scream that Syed Salahuddin is a terrorist. But nobody would listen to him,' says the Hizbul Mujahideen leader.
Congress charged the Narendra Modi government with tarnishing India's image by saying that the location of Dawood Ibrahim was not known.
Romesh Sharma, the alleged front-man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was on Monday sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment in a 12-year-old tax evasion case. Besides the sentence, Additional Chief metropolitan Magistrate Kanwaljeet Arora also imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh on Sharma.
The Bombay high court has asked Mumbai Police Commissioner to file a report on the alleged underworld links of Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal.
Shah told the court that the unidentified persons threatened him with dire consequences over phone on two occasions on June 12 and 14.
Civic authorities on Sunday continued the demolition of seven unauthorised structures near the controversial Sara-Sahara complex in south Mumbai.
The complex stands on a plot of land owned by Central Public Works Department and was illegally built in connivance with municipal officials, according to police.
The quantum of sentence against Sharma and others will be pronounced on February 18.
Although there are various versions, it has now become clear that a major fake currency racket operates in the country and this money is being used to fund terror operations in the State.
Empowerment of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with extra territorial jurisdiction and declaration of Maulana Masood Azhar, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists after legislative amendment were counted among its achievements by the MHA, headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The four arrested gangsters are associates of Fahim Machacha, a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The investigation into the three bomb blasts at Hyderabad has taken a new turn with the narco analysis test of an accused revealing that fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim funded both the Mecca Masjid and twin blasts in Hyderabad earlier this year. The revelation that Dawood spent crores of rupees on the blasts was made by Majid, the youngest brother of Shahid Bilal, the HuJI operative, who is a prime suspect in the blasts.
Kamlakar said Qayyum is also wanted for the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and it is up to the CBI, the agency investing the case, to get his custody and interrogate him.
It was decided at a meeting between the CBI and FIA.
A sharpshooter of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was on Wednesday shot dead in an encounter with the police while he was trying to escape from their custody in Lucknow.
The Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court Monday issued non-bailable warrants against gutka barons J M Joshi, Rasiklal Dhariwal and Pakistan-based Dawood Ibrahim and his brother Anees.
The cases were registered against Zamurrduin Ansari, Rajesh Panchariya, Mohammad Farooq Mansurian and gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees , the CBI said.
Shaikh, one of the main complainants in Sara-Sahara case, had allegedly been asked to vacate her house near Crawford market in south Mumbai for the construction of the Sara-Sahara shopping complex.
Bhutto, who has been living in self-imposed exile in London, said that the militants Pakistan "nurtured" during the Afghan war against the Soviet Union had returned to haunt them.
All of them are wanted in connection with various cases registered in the city for crimes ranging from extortion to murder.
They have been arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch.
His aide Mohammad Dawood Khan has also been held guilty for complicity.
Besides Shakeel's brother, his brother-in-law Arif Bhaijan and Qayoom are also understood to have been detained.
Pakistan on Monday assured to "examine every evidence" that India provides with regard to its fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim, under the joint mechanism on anti-terrorism set up by the two countries.
The two countries will also revive after 16 years the Joint Commission under which cooperation in the fields of trade, energy, telecom, security, visa and consular access to detained nationals of the respective countries will be covered.
The officer said Haseena has accepted to have been in contact over phone with only two of the Kaskar siblings -- Mushtaqim and Humayun -- the only ones not wanted by the Mumbai police.
Haseena has an extortion case filed against her and others by estate agent Vinod Avlani.
Ekta Kapoor's gangster drama Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai completes its 10 years on July 30.
On May 10, non-bailable arrest warrants were issued against Parkar and four others in a case of extortion, forgery and cheating.
India on Friday asked Pakistan to deport Dawood as well as Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.
