<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A TADA Court in Mumbai today extended the CBI custody of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide Farooq Takla till March 28. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The CBI had prayed for his custody to verify the statements Takla made during the interrogation. The agency also claimed that Takla was not cooperating in the probe.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Takla, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, had earlier been remanded to CBI's custody till today. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He was arrested at an immigration counter of New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport earlier this month.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Takla had fled the country after the 1993 Mumbai blasts, in which 257 people were killed. </div>
News On AIR | March 19, 2018 7:45 PM
TADA court extends Farooq Takla's CBI custody till Mar 28