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Mrs Mirchi moves Bombay HC to claim 2 flats

MUMBAI: Eighteen years after the couple fled India just before the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, the wife of one of the worlds top drug barons, Iqbal Mirchi, has returned to India and approached the Bombay High Court to stake her claim to two flats located in a prime area of the city. Now a British national, Heena Kausar (55), a smalltime yesteryears Bollywood actress, has urged the court to revoke the detention order against her husband so that the seal on the two flats she owns in Juhu can be lifted. The flats are in Milton Apartments on Juhu Tara Road. A division bench of Justice B H Marlapalle and Justice U D Salvi on Wednesday issued notices to the state and the Union government and asked them to file their affidavits in three weeks time. In her petition, Heena claimed that she is visiting India to protect her civil rights . Iqbal Mirchi was declared a proclaimed offender by the Indian government in 1994. He has been ranked among the top drug barons in the world by a United Nations report and has an Interpol Red Corner notice pending against him. Originally named Iqbal Memon, he got the nickname Mirchi because he owned a spice shop at Null Bazar. He is alleged to have entered the narcotics trade in the 1980s and he fled to Dubai just before the Mumbai blasts.

                                                                                                               
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