Transcripts accessed by mid-day reveal the extent of threats made by gangster Chhota Shakeel to a city businessman, who features in the extortion case against former CP Param Bir Singh and other officers. As per the recordings being probed by Mumbai police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT), Shakeel threatened the businessman at the behest of Shyam Sunder Agarwal. Agarwal was booked under MCOCA for alleged connection with the gangster. But now, the SIT suspects the case against Agarwal, who is a complainant in the FIR against Singh, was fake.
 
Police said these audio recordings of Shakeel, gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide, were latest. According to sources, the phone number from which the threat calls were made to the businessman, Sanjay Punamia, are in the records of the Mumbai Crime Branch and belongs to Shakeel. They added that Shakeel is using the number from Karachi to make extortion calls.