He was at the immigration office on arrival from Dubai when a CBI team arrested him.

Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Farooq Takla, who is wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on Thursday was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airpor in Delhi by the CBI on arrival from Dubai.

Mustak Mohammad Miya alias Farooq Takla was at the immigration office when a CBI team arrested him on the basis on an Interpol Red Corner notice issued against him.

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He would be produced before a designated court, a CBI spokesperson said.

According to officials in the know of the development, central intelligence agencies were working in securing arrests or deportations of close aides of Dawood, who has been designated by the U.S. authorities as a global terrorist and faces sanctions in the United Nations.