Ghai paid Bhai Rs 25L: Salem
Bollywood big daddy Subhash Ghai had paid gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees between Rs 20 and 25 lakh in extortion money, incarcerated don Abu Salem told investigators under the influence of truth serum in Bangalore in December 2005.
By TNN |
MUMBAI: Bollywood big daddy Subhash Ghai had paid gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees between Rs 20 and 25 lakh in extortion money, incarcerated don Abu Salem told investigators under the influence of truth serum in Bangalore in December 2005. Producers Rakesh Roshan and J P Dutta, he said, had not paid even a dime. Ghai was not available for comment.
When asked if he knew any policemen, Salem said that the one policeman he knew was Mumbai encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma.
Salem admitted that he was guilty of only one thing loving Monica Bedi. “Hamne sirf pyaar kiya tha.’’
The transcript of Abu Salem’s narco-analysis, now in the possession of Star News, has the gangster naming Chhota Shakeel and Anees Ibrahim in almost every murder and extortion case in which he is suspected to have played a part. A drugged-out Salem, who had been administered sodium pentothal, answered questions on a number of crimes-from murder and extortion to the serial blasts and his connection with the film world.
Salem said that he was living in fear that Mumbai’s gangsters-Dawood Ibrahim, Anees Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Chhota Rajan-were out to finish him. Dawood, he said, was angry with him for giving the CBI information about the serial blasts.
When contacted Pradeep Sharma told TOI, “The maximum number of Salem men have been killed by me in encounters . I was the first to arrest Salem gang members involved in the murder of Ajit Dewani (secretary of Manisha Koirala). When he was extradited, he specifically told the CBI not to put him in police custody under my supervision.’’
Anees’ name crops up repeatedly . Anees and Shakeel are named for builder Om Prakash Kukreja’s death (“ Shakeel made the plan and Anees supplied the weapons from Bhendi Bazaar’’ ). It was also Anees who gave the supari (contract killing) for Subhash Ghai and director Ram Gopal Varma. Anees is named again in the murder of cassette baron Gulshan Kumar. Salem denied that music director Nadeem Khan had anything to do with the killing.
When asked if he knew any policemen, Salem said that the one policeman he knew was Mumbai encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma.
Salem admitted that he was guilty of only one thing loving Monica Bedi. “Hamne sirf pyaar kiya tha.’’
The transcript of Abu Salem’s narco-analysis, now in the possession of Star News, has the gangster naming Chhota Shakeel and Anees Ibrahim in almost every murder and extortion case in which he is suspected to have played a part. A drugged-out Salem, who had been administered sodium pentothal, answered questions on a number of crimes-from murder and extortion to the serial blasts and his connection with the film world.
Salem said that he was living in fear that Mumbai’s gangsters-Dawood Ibrahim, Anees Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Chhota Rajan-were out to finish him. Dawood, he said, was angry with him for giving the CBI information about the serial blasts.
When contacted Pradeep Sharma told TOI, “The maximum number of Salem men have been killed by me in encounters . I was the first to arrest Salem gang members involved in the murder of Ajit Dewani (secretary of Manisha Koirala). When he was extradited, he specifically told the CBI not to put him in police custody under my supervision.’’
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Confessions under the influence of drugs, say officials, are not valid evidence in a court of law. One of the main reasons for this is that this is not a fool-proof method. But they help to piece together a case by providing valuable insights , explain investigators. It remains to be seen how much the investigation stands to gain from Salem’s ‘confessions’ . Anees’ name crops up repeatedly . Anees and Shakeel are named for builder Om Prakash Kukreja’s death (“ Shakeel made the plan and Anees supplied the weapons from Bhendi Bazaar’’ ). It was also Anees who gave the supari (contract killing) for Subhash Ghai and director Ram Gopal Varma. Anees is named again in the murder of cassette baron Gulshan Kumar. Salem denied that music director Nadeem Khan had anything to do with the killing.
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