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The agency's press release stated that the case was registered under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA), and the Indian Penal Code.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 5, 2022, filed a charge sheet against three arrested and two wanted ‘Global Terrorist’ Dawood Ibrahim, his close aide Chhota Shakeel of the ‘D-Company’- a transnational organized criminal syndicate, involved in various criminal/terrorist activities in India.
The NIA has charge sheeted the following:
“Investigations have established that the accused persons who are members of the D-Company, a terrorist gang, and an organized crime syndicate, had conspired to further the gang's criminal activities by carrying out various types of unlawful activities. In furtherance of the said conspiracy, they raised, collected and extorted huge amounts of money by threatening and by putting person(s) in fear of death or grievous hurt, for the D-Company, for the benefit of an individual terrorist (Dawood Ibrahim) in the instant case. With the intention to threaten the security of India and create terror in the minds of the general public,” the NIA press release stated.
“It has also been established that the arrested accused persons received huge amounts of money through hawala channels, from the absconding/wanted accused based abroad, meant for triggering sensational terrorist/criminal acts) in Mumbai and other parts of India to create terror in people's minds. The accused persons were holding/in possession of the said ‘proceeds of terrorism,” the NIA press release further stated.
As per NIA Press Release, the case was registered at Mumbai Police Station on February 3, 2022, under Sections 17(Punishment for raising funds for a terrorist act), 18 (Punishment for conspiracy), 20 (Punishment for being a member of a terrorist gang or organization) and 21 (Punishment for holding proceeds of terrorism) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and under Sections 3(1)(ii), 3(2), 3(4) and 3(5) of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999, read with Sections 387 (Putting person in fear of death or of grievous hurt, in order to commit extortion), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information, to screen offender), and 120B (Punishment for criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
On May 12, 2022, the NIA arrested two close aides of underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim and his close confidante and wanted terrorist Shakeel Shaikh @ Chhota Shakeel. Shakeel operates an international criminal syndicate from Pakistan and is involved in extortion, narcotics smuggling, and violent terrorist activities in India.
The case pertains to terror/criminal activities of the international terrorist network of D-Company involving Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates including Haji Anees alias Anees Ibrahim Shaikh, Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Javed Patel alias Javed Chikna and Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon alias Tiger Memon, stated the press release issued by the agency.
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