Wanted gangster held in 12-yr-old extortion case

March 02, 2016 23:57

Notorious gangster and Brother-in-law of fugitive underworld don Chhota Shakeel, Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit, was today arrested in a 12-year-old extortion case, crime branch officials said.

Fruit, against whom a non-bailable warrant was issued in the case, was arrested from Nagpada in south Mumbai by the Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) sleuths of crime branch.

According to police, in 2004, Shakeel's hirelings had threatened a central Mumbai-based doctor and demanded Rs 25 lakh extortion. After negotiations, the amount was settled for Rs 10 lakh.

The crime branch had then arrested two persons when they came to collect the money. Later, two more persons were held in the same case. At that time, Fruit was a fugitive. He was deported to India in 2007 from Dubai and jailed.

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