Mumbai, July 7 (PTI): An AK-56 rifle has been seized from the house of a member of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang in suburban Goregaon here, police said on Saturday.

”Yasmin Naim Khan (35), wife of Dawood Ibrahim gang member Naim Khan, was arrested following the raid on the couple's house yesterday,” a senior official of Thane Police said.

Apart from an AK-56 assault rifle, three magazines, a 9mm pistol and 13 live cartridges were seized from Khan's house by the Anti Extortion Cell of Thane Police, he said.

The raid followed interrogation of two alleged drug peddlers, Jahid Zali Shoukat Kashmiri (47) and Sanjay Shroff (47), arrested by the Thane AEC from Nagpada in central Mumbai on Thursday.

The assault rifle was lying at Khan's house for a long time, the official claimed.

Naim Khan was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in 2016.

He had allegedly planned to kill Iqbal Attarwala, a former gang member, on the instructions of fugitive gangster Chhota Shakeel, the official said.

They were arrested before the plan could be executed.

Naim Khan is currently lodged in Thane prison, awaiting trial.

AEC is questioning Yasmin Khan as to why the weapons and ammunition were stored at the house, the official said.

She was on Saturday produced before a court in Thane which remanded her in police custody till July 11, he added.