Rashid Malabari

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rashid Malabari

• Does Rashid Malabari smoke?: Not Known

• Does Rashid Malabari drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Rashid has been a close aide to Dawood Ibrahim‘s right hand, Chhota Shakeel.

• When he was a kid, he used to live at Mumbai’s Dongri place with his family. After his father’s death in 1975, his family moved to Ghatkopar.

• When he was young, he used to work as a coolie at the bus stands, later he started working at tea shops and to earn more money, he started distributing milk door-to-door.

• When he was 13 years old, he opened his own tea shop. Later, his brother-in-law, Ismail, took him to Dubai.

• In Dubai, he used to work as a salesman in an Ice cream company Um-al-queen.

• His brother is also a criminal and has been arrested several times by the Mumbai Police. One day, when Rashid went to meet him in jail, he gave him Chhota Shakeel’s contact number.

• During those days, he was in need of money, so, he joined Chhota Shakeel’s gang.

• Once Rashid had planned to abduct a Dubai-based businessman returning to Mangalore, Karnataka for a ransom of ₹5 crore. The ransom amount was to be used to kill Varun Gandhi and Pramod Muthalik, Malbari confessed before the Mangalore police.