Mumbai, May 18 (PTI) Underworld gangster Chhota Rajan's name has cropped up in the preliminary probe into the firing incident here in which fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar escaped unhurt while his bodyguard was killed.
"Rajan's name has surfaced (in the firing case).
However, it is premature to say anything now. It is yet to be verified. Just because Dawood and Rajan are rivals, we cannot hold the latter responsible for the incident," said a senior police official here today.
According to another official, Kaskar also had problems with many other people and police is investigating whether the firing was the outcome of personal enmity.
Meanwhile, the two arrested accused in the case were identified as Syyed Ali (29), a resident of Mumbra and Indra Khatri (27), possibly from Nepal, police said.