Three members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang were arrested by the Sir J J Marg police at Ahmedabad recently.

The arrested trio, Nadeem Abdul Razak (27), Arif Dawood Memon alias Arif Toofani (28) and Ashok alias Aslam Kotian Tihayan (30), were involved in many serious offences like murder, attempt to murder and extortion. They had fled to Ahmedabad nearly four years ago though the trial relating to their cases were in progress in the sessions as well as in the metropolitan magistrate's courts. Last week, the J J Marg police received information that Toofani was seen selling flowers near a mosque at Ahmedabad. A police team was dispatched to Ahmedabad and nabbed Toofani near the mosque at Shah Alam fort. Later, Razak and Aslam, who were staying with him, were also nabbed.

One arrested for smuggling forex

The officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs arrested an African national allegedly for smuggling assorted foreign currency worth Rs 14.29 lakhin the Indian market. According to AIU officials, Akbardi Karimdjee Mahmood, who holds a passport of the Republic of Madagascar, was intercepted while he was about to board an Air-India flight to Singapore at the Sahar airport. Police searched his bags which yielded US $ 34,150, Singapore dollars 250 and 700 French Francs. Mahmood was produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Usha Iyer who remanded him to judicial custody till January 29.