Dubai-based gangster arrested from IGI airport

New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) Police have arrested a member of the Dubai-based Aftab gang from the Indira Gandhi International Airport who was here on a 'kidnap-for-ransom' mission.

Nitin Moda, who belonged to the Aftab gang -- which split from the Dawood gang some years back and was based in Dubai, was arrested on July 12, a day after the serial blasts in Mumbai, said a senior police official.

The gangster was arrested after Red Corner notices against the gang's members Aftab alias Vicky and Ali Khan were issued following the killing of a Poona businessman Sagar last year, in which Rs two crore ransom had been demanded.

Sagar's body, with severed head, was later found in Gujarat.

Ever since the gang had been on the police radar.

His interrogation revealed that Moda, who was travelling on a fake passport from Hyderabad, had arrived in Delhi to execute the kidnapping of a businessman to extract ransom on the orders of Aftab.

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