mumbai fugitive gangster dawood ibrahims younger brother iqbal kaskar 60 was arrested by the quick response team of thane police late monday evening after a builder lodged a complaint of extortion against himthe only one of 11 siblings of dawood to be currently based in the city kaskar was held from his residence at pakmodia street by a 40member team led by acp nivrutti kadam and senior inspector pradeep sharmapolice said kaskar had been threatening builders in the thane region on dawoods behalf and demanding huge amounts running into crores as extortion money many of these builders from thane ulhasnagar and dombivli had allegedly paid massive amounts to kaskar one of the builders who had suffered big losses during demonetization and was under debt filed a complaint with the police police sources said kaskar had taken four flats from the buildersenior police officials said kaskar was not acting alone but was being assisted in his extortion activities by two buildersone from thane and the other from mumbra they have also been picked up one of them had been arrested in an abetment to suicide case two years agotoi has learned that kaskar was to be picked up on saturday itself but police found out he was not at home that evening and did not want to conduct a raid at the residence in his absence as it would alert himsources said that a police team had been keeping tabs on kaskar ever since his name cropped up in the investigationbeside the builders complaint there are conversations where kaskar and his accomplice can be heard threatening builders and demanding money we will produce him before the court on tuesday said a source on condition of anonymitysources said the complainant who was tired of kaskars repeated threats approached thane police commissioner parambir singh after studying the complaint and the evidence on hand singh directed sharma to proceed further with the investigation there are also reports that kaskar may be booked under the stringent mcoca maharashtra control of organized crime actkaskar was deported from the uae in 2003 and arrested in a murder and conspiracy case he was later acquitted in both cases he was also arrested in 2015 for allegedly assaulting a real estate agent in south mumbai for extortion money of rs3 lakhiqbal kaskar initially used to stay with wife rizwana hasan and his children only at his constable fathers house in dambarwala building in pakmodia street but after an attempt on his life in 2011 and after his sister haseena parkars death he also began staying intermittently at haseena parkars flat at gordon apartment in nagpadaon kaskars acquittal in 2012 rizwana had filed an appeal in court to delete remarks on their passports so that their children could go abroad for their studies