Mumbai has been put on high alert, with law-enforcement agencies renewing their focus on former Dawood gang members, after the Delhi police busted a terror module with IB inputs. Sources said the Crime Branch has so far examined 400-500 people with D-Gang links as authorities suspect some terror outfits are trying to launch strikes with the help of the underworld, just like the ISI used Dawood Ibrahim to carry out the 1993 blasts. Terrorist organisations are believed to have paid a huge amount to the underworld operating from Pakistan to carry out attacks in India.

Following the arrest of Dharavi resident Jaan Mohammed Shaikh who was on the radar of the Crime Branch radar as well the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the Crime Branch suspects that the underworld is activating its partially dead network, particularly those who had been associated with the Dawood gang 15-20 years back. Sources said the surveillance by the agencies on these people is a little less when it comes to terror activities.