Court remands Iqbal Kaskar in seven-day NCB custody in drugs case
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Iqbal Kaskar was arrested by the NCB on Wednesday after his alleged involvement in the case surfaced following the recent seizure of 27kg of hashish.
A court at Bhiwandi in Thane district of Maharashtra on Friday remanded Iqbal Kaskar, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother, in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for seven days to facilitate his questioning in a drugs case. Iqbal Kaskar was arrested by the NCB on Wednesday after his alleged involvement in the case surfaced following the recent seizure of 27kg of hashish. In 2017, Kaskar was arrested by police in neighbouring Thane in an extortion case. He is currently lodged in a Thane jail for the offence commited under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
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