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Anees Ibrahim, younger brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and one of his two accomplices 8212; Salim Chiplun and Shamsher Dawood alias Chhota Dawood 8212; who were reportedly detained by the Saudi authorities at the Jeddah Airport on Tuesday, have an Ahmedabad link.
If sources in the police are to be believed, Shamsher Dawood is none other than Sharif Khan Pathan, a sharpshooter and former aide of one-time gangster of Ahmedabad Abdul Latif Abdul Wahab Shaikh. Anees, on the other hand, is wanted in at least one case of counterfeit currency in Ahmedabad.
The Interpol had issued a Red Corner notice against Sharif at the behest of the CBI.
Sharif, who used to be the main member of the Karim Lala gang in Maharashtra, had later developed relations with Ahmedabad8217;s underworld don Abdul Latif. He has been absconding since 1993 after escaping from the custody of the Ahmedabad police on April 21 that year.
Some of the high-profile cases in which Sharif, a native of Madhya Pradesh, is wanted by the Gujarat Police include the shootout at Radhika Gymkhana in the Odhav area of Ahmedabad in 1992, in which at least nine people were killed. He is also the main accused in the murder of Laxmansinh Bhadoriya, who was an eyewitness to the shootout. He is also one of the main accused in an ISI conspiracy case, being investigated by the Ahmedabad City DCB. Two of Sharif8217;s alleged accomplices 8212; Noor Mohammed Ghoghari and Sohrabuddin Shaikh 8212; had allegedly demanded extortion money from one Rafique Chengara in 2001.
