Mumbai cops get custody of deported aide of gangster Dawood's nephew

Mumbai: Mumbai police's Crime Branch have got custody of a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's nephew, a senior official said Tuesday.

He said Danish Ali, a close aide of Ibrahim's nephew

Sohail Kaskar, was deported from the United States of America on November 15 last year following which the Mumbai police took him into custody last month.

Ali and Kaskar, along with two Pakistani nationals, were arrested by US agencies in a narco-terrorism case in 2014, the official added.

Ali had left India and moved to Dubai in 2001 where he teamed up with Kaskar to operate a diamond smuggling ring, he said.

The two attempted to enter Russia to further the diamond racket but Ali was denied a visa, the official added.

Ali, however, managed to enter Russia a little while later on a student visa and regrouped with Kaskar for diamond smuggling operations after attending college there for two years, the police official said.