Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shakeel Babumiya Shaikh |
| Status | Dead |
| Died | January 6, 2017 |
| Other names | Rizwan,Haji |
| Occupation(s) | Leader of organized crime,Terrorism,Narco-Terrorism,Mafia Leader |
| Organization | D-Company |
Wanted by |  India,Interpol,CBI,DEA |
| Wanted since | 1992 |
Chhota Shakeel (born name Shakeel Babumiya Shaikh) a.k.a Shakeel Shaikh (died Jan 6,2017) [1] [2] [3] was a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, the leader of the D-Company (Dawood Company), one of the biggest mafia syndicates in South Asian organized crime and Mafia.[4]
Chhota Shakeel suffered a Cardiac arrest on January 6,2017 which was followed by a Heart attack and was declared dead in Rawalpindi,Pakistan. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Initially Shakeel ran a dubious travel agency in Dongri, Mumbai. He was one of the early members in the D-Company along with Bishal Cheetah, Johnny Akhawat and Liger Bhai or Mushu Bhai. He joined Dawood in Dubai in 1988. In those days, Sharad Shetty managed the match fixing, betting and hawala deals for Dawood while Chhota Rajan managed the gang's criminal activities in Mumbai. After the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and the Dawood-Chhota Rajan split, Shakeel took over the day-to-day operations of the D-Company. He was a mentor to Abu Salem and entrusted him the responsibility of Bollywood film financing and acquiring overseas film rights. Later they had a fallout and Abu Salem branched out on his own.
In September 2000, Shakeel admitted to having planned an attack on Chhota Rajan.[12] In 2001, he accepted his involvement in financing Hindi films in an interview to India Today magazine.
In September 2016 Shakeel was interviewed by Amber Sharma of []Mowgli Productions]] for his series Life Of Mafia. This is the first time Shakeel openly talked about his personal life which he had previously kept secret.
He has openly pledged to assassinate Chhota Rajan, another leading figure in Ibrahim's network who lived in Indonesia until his arrest and extradition to India in November 2015.[13]
Shakeel is alleged to have claimed responsibility for the killing of influential social activist businessmen S M Khalid, the Bombay Bakers Association President, in 1997 at Dongri.[14]
Shakeel was issued a Red Corner notiece by the Central Bureau of Investigation in India and was one of the country's most wanted fugitives.[15]
References
- ^ "1993 mastermind of Bombay Blasts and right hand man of Dawood Ibrahim Chhota Shakeel is Dead". 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Chhota Shakeel is Dead". 4 January 2018.
- ^ "The Gangster who loved wearing Cavalli suits".
- ^ "छोटा शकील की मौत के बाद घबराहट में दाऊद, पाक छोड़ने की फिराक में".
- ^ "1993 mastermind of Bombay Blasts and right hand man of Dawood Ibrahim Chhota Shakeel is Dead". 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Chhota Shakeel is Dead". 4 January 2018.
- ^ "The Gangster who loved wearing Cavalli suits".
- ^ "This is what Chhota Shakeel looked like in his last days".
- ^ "छोटा शकील की मौत के बाद घबराहट में दाऊद, पाक छोड़ने की फिराक में".
- ^ "The safe house where Shakeel met Dawood before he died".
- ^ "डी कंपनी: छोटा शकील की मौत, डिप्रेशन में अंडरवर्ल्ड डॉन दाऊद इब्राहिम".
- ^ "rediff.com The Rediff Interview/Chhota Shakeel". Retrieved 2007-09-22.
- ^ Zeeshan Shaikh (24 December 2015). "Chhota Shakeel planned Chhota Rajan murder in Indonesia by undercover female assassin!". India.com.
- ^ "My men shot baker dead, says Shakeel", The Indian Express, 17 February 1997, as reproduced at Hindu Vivek Kendra website accessed 18 September 2017.
- ^ Central Bureau of Invesgitagion/Interpol. "RED CORNER NOTICE". cbi.nic.in.
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Further reading
- Thomas Blom Hansen (2001). Wages of Violence:Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08840-3. — pp. 222
- Clifford Sawhney (2004). Strange But True Facts. Pustak Mahal. ISBN 81-223-0839-2. — pp. 31