Dawood call row: Mumbai police give clean chit to Revenue Minister Khadse

22 May, Mumbai

Mumbai police said today that that no calls were made between Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse and gangster Dawood Ibrahim.The statement was issued by Mumbai Police, a day after Aam Aadmi Party’s Preeti Sharma Menon made the allegations.

“Our initial analysis of the cell phone number (belonging to Khadse) indicated that there were neither outgoing nor incoming calls from this number to that of the fugitive (Dawood) during the entire period of September 2015 to April 2016, as stated in the (AAP) press conference,” Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Atulchandra Kulkarni said.”

When the issue of contact of the Maharashtra government minister with Mumbai underworld fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, who is abroad, cropped up, we checked the details.

At a news conference AAP held on Saturday, Menon had claimed Khadse had received several phone calls from Dawood Ibrahim’s wife Mehjabeen Shaikh’s phone number.

Menon also claimed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had ordered investigations.Khadse, however, termed the allegations “unfounded” and claimed that the number in question has not been in use for the past one year.