Mumbai: Crackdown on Shakeel gang,7 arrested

With the arrest of seven alleged members of Chota Shakeel gang,Mumbai police have launched a crackdown on this underworld outfit to strike its network in India and South East Asia.

“Top members of Shakeel gang are in our custody. This will not only help us to know Shakeel’s network in India and abroad but also to curb his activities,” Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria told PTI.

The first breakthrough came early this month following the arrest of five members of Shakeel gang who were allegedly on a mission to eliminate a lawyer.

They were idenfitied as Abdul Wahab Mohammed Hassan Faqeer,Mohammed Salaam Yakub Ali Hakeem,Ramesh Warkari,Salaam Mohammed Yousuf Kazi and Fazal-ur Rehman Khan. Later,Anil Mhatre,a shooter of this gang,was killed in a police encounter in south Mumbai.

Two sharp shooters and close aides of Shakeel,Gurpreet Singh and Rashid Malbari– top rung members of the gangare also in police custody. While Bhullar was extradited from Bangkok on May 14,Rashid was brought from Karnataka on a transit remand on May 18. The duo was arrested on their arrival in the city.

To a question on series of arrests only of Shakeel gang members,Maria said,”We are acting upon the information received from our reliable sources. It is not like we targeted only one gang and left other one.”

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