Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahims brother Iqbal Kaskar and his family members have moved the Bombay High Court,seeking to remove an observation on their passports that restricts their travel abroad. The Ministry of External Affairs had made the observation recently that passports are valid to travel between the UAE and India only. As a result,the family,currently settled in Dubai,cannot visit other countries. The petition was filed last week by Iqbal (45),his wife Rizwana,daughters Hafsa and Kaniz Fatima and sons Mohammed Rizwan,Aiman Iqbal Hasan and Mohammed Aaban. As per the petition,when the Kaskars sought removal of the restriction,the MEA told them that they should seek an order to that effect from the court. Iqbal was deported from Dubai in 2003,but he was later acquitted in a murder case,and discharged in Sara-Sahara illegal construction case. The petition mentions that currently no case is pending against him. The court has asked the MEA to file a reply in two weeks.
