MUMBAI: A shooter of fugitive gangster Chhota Shakeel has been arrested after 25 years in reference to a homicide case, a Mumbai Police official stated. The arrested accused has been recognized as 50-year-old Laik Ahmed Fida Hussain Sheikh. “Laik Ahmed Fida Hussain Sheikh (50), shooter of the Chhota Shakeel gang arrested by Pydhonie Police from close to Thane railway station on July 28. Sheikh is accused within the homicide of a member of the arrested underworld don Chhota Rajan gang,” the official stated on Friday.
The accused, alongside together with his accomplices, had shot useless Munna Dhari, a member of the arrested underworld don Chhota Rajan gang, on the night of April 2, 1997. At the moment, the police arrested Sheikh by registering a case towards the accused beneath Part 302, 34 of the IPC and Part 3, 25 of the Arms Act, the official stated
“After this, the accused was launched on bail by a court docket within the 12 months 1998,” the police official added. The official stated that since 1998, the accused Sheikh went underground and didn’t seem in any court docket listening to, after which he was declared an absconder.
Police acquired info from secret sources that the accused Sheikh lived in Mumbra. After which they reached the handle however he was not discovered, nor did anybody acknowledge him. Police additionally acquired info that the accused labored as a taxi driver on the Thane campus.
The police traced the placement of Sheikh and arrested him on Friday by setting a lure close to Thane railway station, the official added.
