Representative image of a dead body.
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Mumbai: Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijaan, brother-in-law of fugitive underworld don Chhota Shakeel, who was an undertrial in a terror-fundu case, has died.
Shakeel is the lieutenant of don and terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar.
Sheikh and his brother Shabbir were nabbed by the National Investigation Agency in May 2023 in connection with a terror-funding case filed in February 2022.
In July 2023, his property in the Mira Road area in the neighbouring Thane district was attached by the NIA.
Shaikh (63), who was lodged in the Arthur Road prison, developed breathing problems in the jail on Friday morning and rushed to the government-run Sir JJ Hospital, where he died of a heart attack.
The body has been handed over to the relatives for the last rites.
Shaikh was involved in arms smuggling, narco-terrorism, money laundering, circulation of fake Indian currency notes and other charges.
They were also accused of being involved in the acquisition of assets for raising terror funds and working in active collaboration with international terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Al Qaeda.