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MUMBAI DON HELD OFF BORDER 

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Staff Reporter Published 06.08.99, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, Aug. 6 :    Calcutta, Aug. 6:  The underworld don of Mumbai, Ashwin Naik, who was arrested by the BSF on Wednesday while trying to cross the Indo-Bangla border near Basirhat in North 24-Parganas, planned to take shelter in Chittagong. Naik, husband of Shiv Sena activist Neeta, was wanted by the Mumbai and Delhi police in connection with a series of crimes, including murders. Police said Naik was fleeing to Bangladesh not to avoid the police but because of the fear of elimination by members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang. A Mumbai police team is in the city to take Naik to Maharashtra. He will be prosecuted under the Maharashtra Organised Crime Control Act. Naik had moved to Delhi from Mumbai some time ago and was building a bungalow at the national capital. He had also given the Delhi police the slip when a team had raided his hideout in Faridabad, Haryana. Naik will also be questioned in connection with the murder of a hotelier, Harida Kurup, and the Amboakar murder case last year. The West Bengal Police is also trying to find out his connections in Calcutta. Sushanta Samanta, 30, was killed in a fire at a laundry in Garden Reach this morning. Two persons have been arrested. Justice P.C.Ghosh of Calcutta High Court today set aside the state?s notification of reducing the service tenure of marriage registrars from 65 to 60 years. The case was filed by Shayam Sunder Gupta on behalf of the Marriage Registrars? Association.    
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