Mumbai: Farooq Takla, a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has been brought to Mumbai after being deported from Dubai, news agency ANI has reported.
Takla fled India 25 years ago after the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai and a Red Corner Notice was issued against him in 1995.
He was brought to Mumbai earlier on Thursday and taken to the CBI offices for questioning. He will be produced before a TADA court in the city later in the day for remand.
Some 257 people were killed and over 700 were injured in the March 12, 1993, serial blasts across the country’s financial capital.