Information About Incident 68793-140864-357455 in Bhavnagar India

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The plan to smuggle pistols from Pakistan was unearthed when Ahmedabad Crime Branch interrogated Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) kingpin Salim Yakub Kara, who was arrested by Gujarat Police on April 5.

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Dawood Ibrahim has set eyes on Gujarat's realty and hawala (illegal money transaction) markets for extortion, The Times of India reports on April 15. The plan to smuggle pistols from Pakistan was unearthed when Ahmedabad Crime Branch interrogated Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) kingpin Salim Yakub Kara, who was arrested by Gujarat Police on April 5. The weapons were meant for Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat to target realtors and hawala operators. Sources say Kara revealed during interrogation that when lodged in Yerwada jail (Pune), he was approached by a key D-company frontman to smuggle arms from Pakistan to extort money from rich Gujarati businessmen.

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68793-140864-357455 4/15/2014 India Dawood Ibrahim targeting realty and hawala markets of Gujarat, says report

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