NIA gets spl court okay to deposit Rs 2cr in bank

MUMBAI: A special court on Thursday granted the NIA permission to deposit in the bank Rs2.2 crore allegedly recovered during searches conducted in a terror-funding case related to D-Company.
In NIA's chargesheet, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, close aide Chhota Shakeel, Arif Shaikh, Shabbir Shaikh and 'Salim Fruit', have been named. NIA has alleged that Dawood and Shakeel sent Rs25 lakh from Pakistan via Dubai to Surat and then to Mumbai through hawala channels to Arif Shaikh and his brother Shabbir Shaikh for "commission of terrorist activities and committing big sensational incidents in Mumbai area".
It was alleged that in April 2022, Shakeel sent Rs25 lakh that was received by Shabbir from a hawala operator at Malad (E) on April 29 under the alias 'Shahid'. He had allegedly used his mobile number and the code word 25kg instead of Rs25 lakh. An employee of the Malad hawala operator identified Shabbir in an identification parade.