Chargesheet filed against gangster Fazal-ur-Rehman

Calcutta News.Net
Tuesday 2nd December, 2008 (IANS)

Delhi Police Tuesday filed chargesheet in a city court against gangster Fazal-ur-Rehman for allegedly making extortion calls to a real estate developer and two other businessmen.

Rehman and his accomplice were accused of making extortion calls to Parsvnath, head of Parsvnath Developers and Builders, and two other Delhi-based businessmen.

In a chargesheet filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the Special Cell of Delhi Police sought prosecution of Rehman and Naseem alias Tanveer for allegedly committing offences relating to extortion and criminal conspiracy.

The police claimed to have intercepted an international call Sep 3 in which extortion demands were made to Parsvnath and two other businessmen, Nitin Seth and Ashok Gupta, for a total of Rs.120 million as protection money. They claimed that calls were made on behalf of 'bhai'.

According to the police, during the surveillance of the mobile numbers being used by Naseem, an alleged operative of Rehman, it was revealed that he was constantly in touch with Mauseem alias Mohsin, who was allegedly working for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Naseem, resident of Bihar's Darbhanga district, had passed the mobile number of the businessmen to Mohsin, asking him to make calls to them on behalf of 'bhai', the police claimed.

The police, in their chargesheet, also claimed that Naseem, who had met Rehman in Tihar jail Aug 31, June 13, and Sep 16 this year had hatched the conspiracy to extort money from the businessmen through Mohsin in Dubai.

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