Karachi-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s nephew Alishah Parkar married a Mumbai girl Ayesha Nagani at a ‘nikaah’ ceremony performed at a mosque here on Wednesday morning, even as officers in plain clothes kept a close eye on the visitors to the ceremony.
The Parkar and Nagani families hosted a grand reception for the newly-wedded couple at a Hotel Tulip Star at Juhu in north-west Mumbai later 9 pm onwards. The reception went on till very late in the night.
like the morning’s ‘nikaah’ ceremony, the evening reception was also a major source of information for the intelligence personnel who kept a close vigil on the goings-on there and also guests who had turned out the event.
Informed sources said that a small gathering of people — comprising two dozen family members from both sides, relatives and close friends — was present at the private ‘nikaah’ ceremony held at Rasool Masjid in Nagpada area in downtown south Mumbai, where Dawood’s family resides. The ‘nikaah’ was solemnised by a Muslim cleric.
Though media persons had been invited for both the ‘nikaah’ and the reception, very few turned at the Rasool Masjid in the morning, but were turned away by the hosts.
Speculation was rife that Dawood watched both ‘nikaah’ and reception over skype . However, there was no confirmation to that effect.
Sources aid said that apart from noting down the vehicles of guests coming to the reception, the plain-clothed policemen were taking precautions against any possible disturbance sought to be attempted by the underworld don’s rivals.
Alishah is the youngest son of Haseena Parkar, who died of a massive heart attack on July 6, 2014, while the bride is the daughter of a Mumbai businessman Shiraj A. Nagani and his wife Reshma.
Used to be known as Haseena Aapa in the underworld circles, she is survived by a son and two daughters. Her eldest son Danish Parkar had died in a road accident in 2006.
late3 Haseena’s family lives at Gorden Hall building in downtown Nagpada.
Alishah’s elder sister Umaira got married in May 2015.
Used to be known as Haseena Aapa in the underworld circles, Haseena (55) used to live.
Apart from being the sister of Dawood, she was the widow of underworld gangster-cum-extortionist Mohammad Ibrahim Parkar, who was bumped off by the rival Arun Gawli gang members in 1992.
Dawood, who had fled the country in late eighties, had not taken kindly to his brother-in-law Parkar’s murder. Before long, the then Dubai-based Dawood hit back at the Gawli gang by eliminating the rival group’s sharpshooter Shailesh Haldankar in the JJ hospital shootout, considered one of the landmark incidents in Mumbai’s underworld history.
Despite being the younger sister of underworld don Dawood, Haseena had not had not hit headlines till early 2007.