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Monday, August 9, 1999

Builders held for using underworld contacts

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE  
SURAT, Aug 8: The Prevention of Crime Branch (PCB) booked two builders, Dilip Supariwala and Nari Sawlani, and Ishwar alias Ishu -- a suspended SMC employee -- under the Prevention of Anti Social Activities (PASA) Act for their alleged role in using the underworld to get a plot of land evacuated.

While Sawlani has been sent to the Sabarmati Central Jail, Ishu has been despatched to the Bhuj district jail and Supariwala to the Porbandar jail, the PCB said. PASA arrest procedures were finalised for the three before their remand got over, and they were not given a chance to secure bail.

The three arrested wanted to grab a plot of land owned by builder Tarun Rawal and forcibly took Rs 83 lakhs from him between November 1996 and 1998. Rawal approached the Athwalines police after Maratha's arrest, whose help they had sought in grabbing the land.

Maratha, meanwhile, has been re-arrested in the Damodar Kutchhi alias Damodar Patel case and remanded for another 11-day period. Patel, a timber trader, approached the police, saying he was kidnapped by Maratha in December 1997 and released after he paid Rs 50 lakhs.

The city police have also secured the arrest warrant of one Dharmesh Shah, another Chhota Rajan gangster, and are likely to bring him to the city on a transfer warrant. Shah is currently in the custody of the Mumbai police, who have arrested him for offences committed there. Shah was reportedly present with Maratha when Kutchhi was kidnapped. Others arrested in extortion cases, namely Ashok Waghani and Atul Patel, were sent to judicial custody after their remand period expired on Saturday.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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