Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said that it was probably calls by some gangsters which led to the large crowd at the funeral of 1993 blasts case convict Yakub Memon in Mumbai following his hanging at the Central Prison here.

The chief minister, however, dismissed media reports about Tiger Memon, a key absconding accused in the blasts case and Yakub's elder brother, calling his mother Hanifa in Mumbai.