Duo tried to kill Kaskar’s driver 2 days before murder

Investigations had earlier revealed that three accomplices of the shooters,two of whom were identified as Umed alias Rehman and Raju,were also involved in the attack and were present in the area during the shooting.

The police have now learnt that there was a fourth accomplice involved in Nepal,who passed on instructions on behalf of Umed to Khatri months before the murder took place.

Meanwhile,the police have also gathered background information on the perpetrators of the attack. DCP (Zone 1) Cherring Dorje confirmed that the two shooters,Syed Bilal Mustafa Ali and Indra Bahdur Khatri,were associated with the Chhota Rajan gang.

The police said Umed,who has been involved in major incidents of gang land firings in the city,became one of the owners of Spice Up,a Chinese restaurant in Seawoods in Navi Mumbai in March this year. The police also suspect that the conspiracy behind the Pakmodia Street murder was hatched at the restaurant.

Officers from J J Marg police station said Umed,who handles Rajan’s gang in south Mumbai,had fled to Bangkok in the past,and it was possible he could have gone there now too.

“We searched the restaurant and his Nagpada residence,but Umed had already fled. We suspect he might have left the country,” said an officer from the J J Marg police station.

According to the police,Umed is an accused in the murder of Asif Dadi in Bhendi Bazaar on February 13 last year,and that of Zahid Ghulam Hassan Mir alias Chotey Miyan and his nephew Syed Arshad Hussain in Nagpada on July 29,2009.