Iqbal Kaskar, younger brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and his two associates were arrested on Tuesday on charges of assaulting a real estate agent and attempting to extort money from the latter.
Acting on a complaint lodged with them by a real estate agent Salim Shaikh, the Byculla police had booked Kaskar and two of his associates on Monday night for allegedly thrashing the complainant and demanding Rs3lakh from him.
Confirming Kaskar’s arrest, Deputy Police Commissioner Dhananjay Kulkarni told The Pioneer on Tuesday: “Yes, we arrested Kaskar and two of his men on Tuesday on charges of assault and extortion. We will produce him before a court on Wednesday”.
Fortynine-year-old Kaskar and two others have been under sections 385 (Putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (Acts done by several people in furtherance of common intention) of IPC.
In his complaint lodged with the police, Shaikh said that Kaskar had summoned him to Damarwala building at Pakmodia Street in South Mumbai, where the latter abused him, thrashed him along with two others and demanded Rs3 lakh from him.
The case was initially registered by the Byculla police on Monday night and it was transferred to the J J Marg police station. The J J Marg police took Kaskar and two of his associates into custody on Tuesday evening.c