Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar

Saabir Ibrahim Kaskar (?–February 12, 1981) was a notorious Indian criminal based in Mumbai. He was the elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim, the current gang leader of the D-Company. The rise of Saabir and Dawood in Mumbai's underworld and the sympathetic attitude of the Mumbai police towards them evoked the jealosy and resentment of other established gang members from the Pathan gang that dominated South Mumbai area. Finally the inter-gang rivalry grew to such an extent that Samad Khan, the nephew of Karim Lala and his assistants Amirzada and Alamzeb plotted to kill Saabir and Dawood. On 12 February 1981, they shot dead Saabir at a petrol pump in Prabhadevi.

The murder of Saabir is an important chapter in Mumbai's underworld as it unleashed a gruesome gang war between Dawood Ibrahim gang and the Pathan gang leading to a spate of shootouts until the retired don Karim Lala requested a truce and eventually the Pathan gang's dominance was replaced by the Dawood Ibrahim gang.

Saabir Ibrahim Kaskar, the son of a police head constable Ibrahim Kaskar, hailed from Mumka village in Ratnagiri district, Konkan region in the Indian state of Maharashtra in 1955. He belongs to the Konkani Muslim community.

His father Ibrahim Kaskar was a police constable in the CID department at Azad Maidan police station. The family had 8 children and was perennially impoverished. Saabir and his younger brother, Dawood were school dropouts and often spent their days wandering in the streets of Dongri- Bhendi Bazar. In those days, people lived in fear and awe of Karim Lala, the leader of the Pathan gang and Haji Mastan, the smuggler who enjoyed a cult following among the impoverished Muslim youths in south Mumbai including Saabir and Dawood. Soon Saabir and Dawood joined in petty street crime of selling smuggled electronics goods and watches. They often cheated gullible travellers and got involved in street brawls. Saabir, Dawood and their friends called their group, "Young Company". They would hang out near Crawford Market in search of gullible travellers and offer them smuggled Rolex watches for a measely price compared to the actual cost. After the buyer paid them in cash, they would pretend to wrap the watch in a small paper or cloth and tell the buyer not to open it to avoid police suspicion. Actually it would be a stone instead of the watch. They called this activity "alta-palti". If the buyer found out that he had been cheated and accosted them, they would intimidate him with the help of burly Pathan hoodlums from the neighbourhood. Their father requested Haji Mastan to give his wastrel sons decent employment. On Mastan's instructions, they worked in an electronic shop at Manish Market for some time but very soon they were back to their petty crime and mob fights. Soon they found their way into the Pathan gang where they did odd jobs often transporting contraband and illegal goods from one place to another.

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