MUMBAI: The NIA sought custody of two arrested accused, Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijan and his brother Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh, for investigating their role as members of gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associate Chhota Shakeel’s gang, commonly known as D-Company, in committing the crime of inciting terror.
In 2016, Mumbai police had arrested Arif Bhaijan along with three aides, including one Tabbasum Shaikh who was held in an extortion case. Bhaijan’s name first cropped up in 2006 in a Malad land grab case where he along with a few others had forcibly evicted builder Ranchodbhai Patel from a plot overnight.
