Mumbai, Apr 10: Iqbal Hassan Ibrahim Shaikh, younger brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and two others were today remanded to judicial custody till April 24 by a special court in a case of alleged extortion and land grabbing under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. Others arrested with Iqbal are Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafoor Shaikh and Abdul Sattar Haji Hiva Radhanpur. Earlier, they were placed in police custody. The trio are facing charge of forcibly evicting a woman from her house which obstructed the entrance of a shopping Centre allegedly owned by Dawood Ibrahim and his associate Chhota Shakeel in South Mumbai. Police alleged that the associates of the accused were harassing the complainant and that efforts were being made to settle the dispute with her. Her sons were prevented from doing their business. Persons chasing the complainant have been traced and their activities were being watched, the court was told.

Police alleged that this case was the tip of the ice-berg and the modus operandi of the trio was to help the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate to channelise funds into real estate by acquiring old buildings and converting them into multiplexes.

Iqbal was deported from Dubai last month and was arrested in a murder case in which he has already secured bail. This is the second case in which he has been arrested under MCOCA. Bureau Report