Mumbai, September 12: Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar and his family members have moved Bombay High Court, seeking to remove an ‘observation’ on their passports that restricts their travel abroad.
Ministry of External Affairs had made observation recently that passports are “valid to travel between UAE and India only”.
As a result, the family, currently settled in Dubai (UAE), cannot visit other countries.
The petition was filed last week by Iqbal (45), his wife Rizwana, daughters Hafsa and Kaniz Fatima, sons – Mohammed Rizwan, Aiman Iqbal Hasan, and Mohammed Aaban.
As per the petition, when Kaskars sought removal of the restriction, MEA told them that they should seek order to that effect from the court.
Iqbal was deported from Dubai in 2003, but he was later acquitted in a murder case, and discharged in Sara-Sahara illegal construction case.
The petition mentions that currently no case is pending against him.
Court early this week asked MEA to file reply in two weeks.
–Agencies