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Six `contract killers' held

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Filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi among targets

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have nabbed six armed men suspected to be contract killers planning to murder over a dozen businessmen in the city, including noted filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi.

The gangsters, Roy Sequera (30), Sohail Irani (28), Amhjad Ali Shaikh (22), Anthony Lobo (32), Suraj Yadav (20) and Raju Mayaje (20), were about to loot a wine shop in Juhu area of north-west Mumbai on Friday night when the police caught them.

The police seized from them a pistol, three revolvers and seven bullets. They belonged to the Ejaj Lakdawala gang notorious for extortion rackets, police sources said. Lakdawala was once a member of the Dawood gang.

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