Close aid of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim arrested

New Delhi, Mar 08: Twenty-five years after the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, the CBI has arrested key conspirator Yasin Mansoor Mohammed Farooq, alias Farooq Takla, believed to be a close aid of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Mustak Mohammad Miya alias Farooq Takla, was at the immigration office of the Indira Gandhi International Airport when a CBI team arrested him as an Interpol Red Corner notice had been issued against him.

He was brought to Mumbai earlier on Thursday and whisked off to the CBI offices for questioning. He will be produced before a Special TADA Court later in the day for remand.

Takla, against whom the Interpol had issued a Red Corner Notice in 1995 was finally tracked to Dubai where he was believed to be holed up, and later extradited to India to face the law.

At least 257 people were killed, over 700 injured and properties worth crores destroyed in the March 12, 1993, blasts.