Gangster Ejaz Lakdawala arrested from Patna airport by Mumbai police

The Mumbai crime branch arrested fugitive gangster Ejaz Lakdawala, a former associate of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, from the Patna airport on Thursday.

The gangster was produced in court and remanded in police custody till January 21.

Lakdawala, who was in his early 20s when he went to Dubai with Dawood and his younger brother Anis Ibrahim in the early 1990s, has more than 50 cases registered against him in Mumbai and outside.

On December 29, the AEC of the Mumbai crime branch arrested Lakdawala’s daughter Sonia at the Mumbai International Airport when she was ready to fly to Nepal on the back of a fake passport.