Dawood’s Hyderabad link

kolkata: the dawood link in the abduction of khadim's vicechairman partha roy burman was confirmed with the arrest of four hyderabad-based d-company men, including hawala operator abdul karimuddin, who had received the ransom. the cid officers who conducted the raid flew back to the city with them on saturday night. the police also recovered rs 1.4 lakh in cash, three cellphones and a maruti van, used in transporting the money from the arrested persons, revealed cid sources.inspector general (south bengal) prasun mukherjee said,in a series of raids on thursday and friday night, the state police arrested mehboob ali, khwaja altaf ahmed qureshi, mohammed ishaq, besides karimuddin from hyderabad. in another raid at bangalore, some incriminating documents were retrieved, though none was arrested. more members of the notorious dawood ibrahim gang, including a cabaret dancer hailing from kolkata , were arrested in mumbai on sunday afternoon in connection with the sensational abduction of kolkata-based footwear company khadim's vice-chairman partha roy burman, police inspector general (south bengal) prasun mukherjee said on sunday. mukherjee said that the trio arrested from mumbai were in close touch with the dubai-bassed masterminds behind the abduction. the arrests in mumbai came close on the heel of the arrest of four arrests in hyderabad.the dcompany men — abdul karimuddin, mehboob ali, khwaja altaf ahmed qureshi, mohammed ishaq — were flown to the city by the police on saturday night and produced to the alipore sdjm court on sunday. they were charged under section 364 a of ipc for kidnapping for ransom, section 307 for attempt to murder and arms act. they were remanded to police custody till august 31. the police said khadim's representative had paid karimuddin rs 3 crore as ransom which was routed through the hawala channels to dawood's man shafiq alias raju alias shaheed in dubai. investigations had revealed that the d-company men initially planned the abduction of a bangalore-based businessman. the plan did not succeed.they were waiting for another prey. at that time they received information about khadim's which had opened a big showroom at secunderabad. they planned the abduction of khadim's owner. for that, the gang even tapped a khadim's employee, cid sources said.