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If sources in the police are to be believed, Shamsher Dawood is none other than Sharif Khan Pathan, a sharpshooter and former aide of one-time gangster of Ahmedabad Abdul Latif Abdul Wahab Shaikh. Anees, on the other hand, is wanted in at least one case of counterfeit currency in Ahmedabad.
Ashish Bhatia, Joint Commissioner of Police, DCB, said: “We have learnt that one of the detainees in Saudi Arabia is Sharif Khan Pathan alias Chhota Dawood. We are trying to confirm it. He is wanted by the Gujarat Police in a number of cases (of counterfeiting, forgery, terrorism, thefts and kidnapping) since 1992.”
The Interpol had issued a Red Corner notice against Sharif at the behest of the CBI.
Sharif, who used to be the main member of the Karim Lala gang in Maharashtra, had later developed relations with Ahmedabad’s underworld don Abdul Latif. He has been absconding since 1993 after escaping from the custody of the Ahmedabad police on April 21 that year.
Some of the high-profile cases in which Sharif, a native of Madhya Pradesh, is wanted by the Gujarat Police include the shootout at Radhika Gymkhana in the Odhav area of Ahmedabad in 1992, in which at least nine people were killed. He is also the main accused in the murder of Laxmansinh Bhadoriya, who was an eyewitness to the shootout. He is also one of the main accused in an ISI conspiracy case, being investigated by the Ahmedabad City DCB. Two of Sharif’s alleged accomplices — Noor Mohammed Ghoghari and Sohrabuddin Shaikh — had allegedly demanded extortion money from one Rafique Chengara in 2001.
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