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SAJID ELECTRICWALA Drug dealer's kidnapping: Chargesheet

The Free Press Journal - Mumbai

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October 10, 2025

The Mumbai Crime Branch has filed a 1,900-page chargesheet under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against 14 arrested and five wanted accused in a kidnapping and extortion case of drug mafioso Sajid Electricwala.

- Poonam Apraj

The charge-sheet, submitted before a special MCOCA court, includes statements of 45 witnesses. The case began after Shabbir Hussain Siddiqui complained that his friend, Electricwala, had taken Rs5

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