mumbai a key prosecution witness on tuesday identified the director of tips cassettes ltd ramesh taurani as one of the persons who had handed over rs 25 lakh to him on instructions of dubaibased contract killer abu salem to execute the murder of audio king gulshan kumar in 1997 deposing before sessions judge m l tahilyani the witness arif lakdawala said the money was then passed on to the alleged killers on the same day in pursuance of the alleged conspiracy the witness told the public prosecutor ujjwal nikam that he had gone to suburban juhu on june 27 1997 along with his builder friend keki balsara to collect money on behalf of abu salem two persons arrived in tata estate car and handed over the money in two bags to the duo the witness said the two persons who had brought money were music composer nadeem akhtar saifee and ramesh taurani asked if he could identify both the witness said nadeem was not before the court while taurani was sitting with other accused he pointed at taurani and the latter stood up for identification narrating the events the witness said after handing over the money to them nadeem and taurani had a telephonic conversation with abu salem on the formers mobile phone he heard nadeem telling abu salem bhaijaan abhi gulshan ka kaam jaldi kar do brother now complete the job of gulshan soon even taurani told abu salem bhai abhi to paise de diye hain gulshan ka kaam jaldi kar do brother now money has been paid up finish the work of gulshan kumar