Underworld don Aftab Ansari, arrested by CBI after his deportation from Dubai recently for his alleged involvement in several criminal cases including the attack on American centre in Kolkata, was remanded to 14 days police custody in connection with the kidnapping case of two city-based businessmen. Ansari, alias Mohammad Farhan Mallick alias Surendra Jat, was brought to the judicial magistrate's house to seek remand late Saturday night in tight police security when Magistrate D D Rajput remanded the ultra to police custody upto march nine to enable the police for detailed interrogation.

Rajkot police are probing Ansari's involvement in the case of kidnapping of jeweller's son Bhaskar Parekh and his friend Paresh Shah and also the criminal's network.
Besides kidnapping, Ansari is wanted in Gujarat for interrogation in the cases relating to seizure of RDX and an arms cache in Patan in north Gujarat last year. Bureau Report