This story is from December 14, 2005

Don's merry men have 2 many wives

With ATS trying to put together the missing links in the Pradeep Jain murder case, several interesting facts are now coming to light.
Don's merry men have 2 many wives
Mumbai: With the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) trying to put together the missing links in the highly complex murder case of builder and film producer Pradeep Jain, several interesting facts are now coming to light.
Exactly after a month Abu Salem���s extradition, the ATS tasted success again on Monday when it arrested two of Salem���s associates ��� Naeem Khan and Riyaz Siddiqui ��� and also detained the don���s one time driver Mehendi Hassan alias Sunny from his hideout in Mumbra.
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Interestingly all the three accused have one thing in common; they all have two wives. Even their boss, Salem, reportedly married twice. His first wife was Sumaira Jumani and he is then said to have married Monica Bedi in Los Angeles, but she has denied the same.
Accused Riyaz Siddiqui (53), has one wife in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh with home he fathered five children. His second wife stays in Mecca building at Milat Nagar in Jogeshwari with the couple���s seven children...
Siddiqui, a one-time friend of Dawood Ibrahim, is the same man who was deported in 2003 and bailed out in 2004 after the police failed to file a chargesheet against him in a 1996 double murder case.
Naeem Khan alias TR (43), the man who extorted and transported Rs 40 lakh from the Jains to Salem in Dubai, was already married when he befriended one Mumtaz, a bar girl from the western suburbs. While his first wife lives with his brother���s family in Hyderabad, his second wife is in Mumbai.
Lastly, Mehendi Hassan alias Sunny (40), the former driver of Salem who hails from Gulbarga in Karnataka, also has two wives. While the first lives in his native place, the second, a former bar girl, stayed with him in Mumbra.
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S Ahmed Ali

S Ahmed Ali, principal correspondent at The Times of India, Mumbai, covers crime and related isues but sometimes he also takes up offbeat subjects. His interests: automobiles particularly bikes, and gymming.

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