Mumbai: Police is likely to file chargesheet in a special court on June 3 against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Iqbal Hassan Ibrahim Shaikh and two others in a case of alleged extortion and land eviction, crime branch sources said on May28.

The other two accused are Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafoor Shaikh and Abdul Sattar Haji Hiva Radhanpur. The trio is facing the charge of evicting a women from her house which obstructed the entrance of Sara Shopping Centre and Sahara Shopping Complex in South Mumbai.

It is the case of police that both the shopping centres were `benami' properties of Dawood and stood in the names of accused Abdul Rehman and Abdul Sattar. Police have also tape recorded conversations of the duo with co-accused Iqbal.

The chargesheet would be filed in the court of A P Bhangale, who presides over a designated court set up under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

In a related development, the court has deferred till June 2 the plea of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation urging for demolition of these two shopping complexes on the ground that they were illegal. Police opposed the demolition, saying both the shopping centres were valuable pieces of evidence.

Both the shopping centres have been attached by the court after the arrest of Iqbal and his two associates. Iqbal was deported from Dubai recently.

Police alleged the case is a tip of the iceberg and the modus operandi of the trio is to help the Dawood Ibrahim gang in channelising funds into the real estate by acquiring old buildings and turning them into multiplexes.

PTI