No 'Korandi' for Bhai's 'bhai'

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Mumbai, June 14 (UNI) When Arthur Road Jail's one of the most high-profile undertrial and US-designated global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Iqbal Kaskar was set free today, he broke a long-running 'tradition' inside the jail.

Before, Kaskar's release, it had been a practice within the four walls of the jail, which, of course, has been denied by the jail authorities, that the release of a 'bhai' (don) was always a time for celebrations, in fact an evening of anecdotes. Termed as the 'Korandi' in the bhai's lingo, the farewell party is the time, when inmates indulge in entertainment and refreshment, and greet the 'bhai' in their own way.

''Moreover, band is also played in such parties, however in its own style. As there are no drums available in the jail, the inmates regale the evening by striking their fingers on the food plates repeatedly just like a drummist does with the drum,'' said one of the inmates, who earned freedom from the jail along with Iqbal Kaskar.

But Wednesday evening was deprived off all such elements. ''Bhai was being released next morning, we all knew it. But contrary to earlier such occasions, there was no 'qawwali', no singing competition and no clancing,'' the free bird revealed.

If Iqbal bade-adieu to his jail fellows on such a quite note, after being in confinement for four long-years, it was much to do with his profile.

''Being a close blood of Dawood Ibrahim, he was kept in the high-security oval-shaped cell, where the inmate is put incommunicado. He did not interact with other inmates.

So his stature of being 'Bhai's bhai', actually made him depart from the jail in such a quite manner,'' he quipped.

However, Jail Superintendent Swati Sathe denied all such happenings inside her jail.

Yesterday, Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Judge Mridula Bhatkar had acquitted Iqbal and five others including, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officer from all charges leveled against them due to lack of efficient evidence in Sara and Sahara illegal construction case.

Iqbal who had been living in Dubai at the time the scam was brought to notice, had been deported from there on February 2003, and since then had been cooling his heels in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail.

UNI

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