The Uttar Pradesh Police claimed to have arrested jailed gangster Abu Salem’s nephew, Arif, from outside a hotel on Hill Road in Bandra, Mumbai.
Arif was on the absconders’ list of the police and a hunt was on to apprehend him.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the UP Police rushed to Mumbai and started looking for Arif, Special Director General Prashant Kumar said here on Friday.
He said the team members, with the help of the local police in Mumbai, got success when they nabbed the nephew of the don. Arif is being brought to UP for further legal proceedings.
Kumar said that Arif was arrested in connection with a case lodged against him at Kotwali Azamgarh on May 25 by one Shabana Parveen.
Parveen has alleged in the FIR that one Hena, her husband Salam and Mohammed Arif forcefully grabbed her ancestral land.
The police had registered the FIR against the three accused under the charges of Indian Penal Code sections 386 (extortion), 420 (dishonesty), 467 (forgery).
Kumar said that the Special Operations Group of Azamgarh police got information that Arif was hiding in Mumbai and a team immediately dashed off there and nabbed him.
Arif is the son of Abdul Hakim who is the real elder brother of Abu Salem.
