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SAJID ELECTRICWALA Drug dealer's kidnapping: Chargesheet
The Free Press Journal - Mumbai
|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.
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
This story is from the October 10, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal - Mumbai.
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