asked with killing hotelier based in Malad for not paying extortion money
The Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch foiled a murder plot by arresting an aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim on Friday.
The police said that the accused, Ramdas Rahane, was tasked with killing a hotelier based in Malad.
11 criminal cases
Mr. Rahane, a sharpshooter with the D-gang, was first arrested in 1997 for attempting to murder film producer Rajiv Rai. There are 11 criminal cases registered against him in Mumbai, Nashik and Gujarat. A native of Mumbai, Mr. Rahane was inducted into the gang after his younger brother, Dashrath Rahane, an aide of the D-gang, was murdered in the early 1990s.
