Dawood's man Usmangani Mohammed Memon reveals where Bombay blasts were planned

Usmangani wearing a policeman's cap during his antics at SharjahTwo fugitives wanted for the Bombay blasts case were captured within a fortnight. While the arrest of Yakub Memon in New Delhi prompted an announcement in Parliament by the home minister, that of Usmangani Mohammed Memon alias Munna in Bombay 15 days earlier did not merit the same treatment. And yet, his capture is almost as prized as that of Yakub, for he claims to have attended the crucial meeting at Dawood's ritzy Dubai mansion, the Al-Waye, where the blasts were planned.Usmangani was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Gujarat Police when he was visiting his sister in Bombay. During interrogation, he confessed how Dawood, wanting to avenge the killings of Muslims post-Ayodhya, acquired and arranged for the shipment of RDX and other explosives from Pakistan to India.The authorities managed to get a 300-page diary from Usmangani's Dubai flat, all on the fax, after he persuaded one of his friends on the phone to do so. It included the names of top businessmen and builders who sought his help to launder money. Usmangani claims Dawood too had an account in a Choksi hawala bank, in the name of 'Matein'. Said to be Dawood's financial controller, Usmangani says the don lost over $75 million in the BCCI collapse.He gives a peep into Dawood's life - how he has a very bad temper and a massive ego, recalling an incident when Dawood forced him to change his suit because Dawood himself was wearing ordinary clothes. The don often beat up his brothers. Living in a princely fashion, he regularly held darbars and threw lavish parties that had a fair sprinkling of Bollywood stars.Professionally, Dawood ruthlessly liquidated his subordinates on suspicion. Usmangani revealed that the don used Ahmedabad gangster Abdul Latif to kill David and Solomon Pardeshi in Ahmedabad over two years ago because he suspected David of joining the gang of his Bombay rival, Arun Gawli."Gani jo kuch bhi bol raha hai us mein ek paise ka bhi sach nahin hai,"(there is no truth in what Gani has alleged) said Dawood on the phone to India Today. "Every court has a jester. Usman was the jester in my court." Yet this jester, who drew attention at the Sharjah cricket series through his antics, cannot be dismissed as just that.Says Jamnagar SP P.K. Jha: "I haven't come across anyone who knows so much about so many cases." Adds another police official: "If he reveals in court all that he has told us, we can seek capital punishment for all the accused."Published By: AtMigration Published On: Nov 30, 1999--- ENDS ---

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Dawood's man Usmangani Mohammed Memon reveals where Bombay blasts were planned

Usmangani Mohammed Memon reveals the crucial meeting at Dawood's ritzy Dubai mansion, the Al-Waye, where the blasts were planned.

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