Indore



Police on Monday arrested slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s younger brother Shahnawazuddin and five others with three rifles, one pistol and 41 cartridges at Dharad village under Bilpank police station in Ratlam district according to Ratlam superintendent of police Avinash Sharma. One tractor and one jeep were also seized by the police. Police registered a case against them for criminal trespass, fraud, rioting and possessing illegal weapon.

Out of the seized arms, the licences of two rifles had already expired in 2013, while two weapons were without licences. At time of arrest, all the six accused were trying to threaten one widow, Khatun Bee, in a bid to grab her land.

Sohrabuddin was killed in an encounter by the Gujarat police in 2005 in Gujarat. In 1995, Shahnawazuddin and his elder brother Sohrabuddin had been booked for possessing 40 AK-47 assault rifles. The arms were recovered from their house in Jhirnia village of Ujjain district.

PTI report

Five persons, including Riyazuddin, brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh who was killed in a fake encounter in Gujarat, have been arrested for allegedly trying to grab land by forging papers at a village here, police said today.

A complaint was filed by one Barkat Bhai and his sisters to Ratlam Superintendent of Police Avinash Sharma following which a team under Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Neha Bharti was constituted and dispatched to Dharad village where the accused allegedly tried to grab the land, they said.

Riyazuddin along with his armed associates reached the village yesterday to grab the land on the basis of fake will.

But police foiled the move and arrested them, City Superintendent of Police P S Ranawat said.

Three rifles, a pistol, 41 cartridges, a tractor and a jeep were seized from their possession, he said.

A case under relevant IPC sections and Arms Act has been registered against them and further probe into the matter is on, the SP added.