Mumbai: A local court here on Monday remanded Tariq Parveen, a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, to seven-day police custody in an extortion case.
Based on a complaint lodged at the MRA Marg Police Station, the accused Parveen was arrested by the Anti Extortion Cell on Sunday from Dongri area in south Mumbai.
He was held after gangster Ejaz Yusuf Lakdawala (arrested earlier) revealed that he used to help him in extortion.The names of Dawood Ibrahim and his associates Ejaz Lakdawala and Salim Furniturewala have also been included in the FIR.(UNI)