Aides of Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar splurged extortion money in dance bars: Thane police

Thane police, which has been investigating the extortion case against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar and his aides, has found that a huge amount of extortion money was spent by his associates in dance bars.

Kaskar's aides Israr Sayyed and Mumtaz Shaikh splurged the extortion money in dance bars. Several properties were illegally transferred and sold to other parties. The extortion amount collected was illegally routed and a significant sum splurged in dance bars of Thane by the two accused.

Huma Palace, the dance bar in Mulund that was frequented by Israr and Mumtaz, is on the radar of the Thane police's anti-extortion cell officials. The amount spent in the dance bar by these officials could be amounting to lakhs of rupees.

Meanwhile, Thane police officials have denied having found any connection between Islamic Research Foundation preacher Zakir Naik and Dawood Ibrahim.

Thane police has said that it hasn't interrogated Iqbal Kaskar regarding his any possible association with Zakir Naik. "We don't have any  information about any links between Naik and Dawood because we haven't questioned Kaskar on those lines. We have no idea where this information is coming from, but it has not come out in our investigation so we have no idea about it. As of now, there are no more arrests other than the three people, including Kaskar. We have picked up some people who might have information about Kaskar's other aides, but those they are not linked with Kaskar's extortion operations", said DCP Abhishek Trimukhe from Thane Crime Branch.

The Thane police is further working on getting information on Israr and Mumtaz's other properties and bank deposits through their PAN details. They haven't found Kaskar's PAN details as of now but are trying to get more details on his transactions and properties.

Also, the passports of the three people arrested are being checked to ascertain whether they had travelled overseas to meet top bosses of the underworld gang, including Dawood Ibrahim.