• Chota Shakeel is a well-known confidant of the fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim
• Police have recently nabbed Chota Shakeel's aide who is accused of planning the assassination of Tarek Fatah
• Tarek Fatah is a prolific Pakistan-born Canadian writer who is famous for being vocal against terrorist ideologies and criticizing hardliners

New Delhi, July 09, 2017: The fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's well-known confidant, Chota Shakeel, and his close aide were planning to assassinate the prolific Pakistan-born Canadian writer Tarek Fatah before the police spoiled such plans.

The Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested Chota Shakeel's aide who had reportedly received 1.5 lakh for the killing of writer Tarek Fatah. The arrested, Junaid Chaudhary, was nabbed on June 07 in Northeast Delhi, mentioned PTI report.

Junaid, son of a milkman, lived in Gokalpuri area in northeast Delhi. At age 21, he was a student of class XII from an open school.

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Tarek Fatah is a vocal critique of terrorist ideologies and extremism. There have often been cases where his statements have been considered controversial. He strongly opposes terrorism.

A pistol with four live cartridges was found on the Junaid, the arrested person. He also had arranged for additional weapons from western Uttar Pradesh. A few youths were also recruited for the plan. Junaid has been arrested before in June last year with 4 other youth for money sent in hawala by Chota Shakeel. He had also received arms and ammunitions. The plan was to kill Swami Chakrapani, the Hindu Mahasabha chief at that time.

Junaid got out on bail after four months, after which he contacted Shakeel again.

– prepared by Saksham Narula of NewsGram. Twitter: @Saksham2393