Mumbai: Dawood's aide's sons booked for assaulting contractor of redevelopment project

MUMBAI: The

JJ Marg police

on Friday booked Dawood Ibrahim's aide

Hanif Kutta

’s two sons for assaulting a

civil contractor

after latter bagged the

demolition contract

of a old structure in the cluster

redevelopment project

in South Mumbai.


The Sir JJ Marg police on Friday booked Imran Khan alias Imran Kalia and his brother Nabeel Hanif Khan and two unknown accomplices under the IPC sections of assault, Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace. Both the brothers are on the run.

Hanif Kutta was a trusted aide of Dawood and died in late 2000 in Dubai due to kidney failure.

Interestingly Imran Kalia who has several offences registered against him, had a Anti-Corruption Bureau trap and got a senior inspector of JJ Marg police station transferred. Kalia had alleged that senior cop was demanding Rs 2 lakhs for not taking action against him under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug offenders and dangerous persons act (MPDA).

In the fresh case, complainant is a Arab Galli resident Danish Ansari, a civil contractor who had recently bagged the contract of a demolition of a building at Sitaphulwadi.

"On Thursday as my son Danish Ansari who had got the contract was on his bike going to his work place when Nabeel Khan and his accomplices cornered Danish and for no reasons abused him. When he asked why he was abusing they beat him with iron rod and fled away", Said Danish’s father Aslam Ansari.

Aslam has alleged that this is all because Irman Kalia wanted to take the contract of a particular building.