New Delhi: Gajendra Singh, a close aide of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Abu Salem, was on Thursday nabbed by Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh.
Gajendra Singh is associated with property business in Delhi-NCR and is also understood to be investing Abu Salem and Khan Mubarak’s money in illegal property transactions.
Gajendra Singh was nabbed in Mumbai late Wednesday night by the Noida unit of the STF, officials said.
“Gajendra Singh had taken Rs 1.80 crore from a Delhi-based businessman in 2014 in a property-related case. When he was pressured to return the money, Singh had Khan Mubarak”s shooters open fire at the businessman in sector 18 of Noida,” Additional Superintendent of Police, STF, Raj Kumar Mishra told newsmen.
Gajendra invested Abu Salem’s money in Delhi-NCR
Mishra said Singh had paid the shooters Rs 10 lakh, and the agency has cracked the money trail of the transaction, following which he was traced and apprehended.
Gajendra Singh, a close aide of 1993 Mumbai blasts case convict Abu Salem, and gangster Khan Mubarak, was arrested by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) team last night. Singh used to invest their money in property and was also involved in extortion: UP STF pic.twitter.com/lqjnGMXsmP
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The accused maintains a long association with Abu Salem and the police have also accessed images of Gajendra Singh with the gangster.
Accused Gajendra Singh was wanted in a couple of cases registered at a police station in Noida where he has been lodged now for further proceedings.
