India, Oct. 24 -- Four years after the Enforcement Directorate seized a flat worth Rs.55 lakh in Thane West after finding that fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar and others had resorted to extortion to get the property registered in their name, a Thane West resident broke into the flat on July 12 this year. Haresh Kamble, the accused, claimed sole and legal ownership of the flat, engaged a key maker to break the lock and removed the possession notice pasted by the ED on the front door to buttress his ownership claims.

On Friday, the ED said Kamble had been booked by the Thane police for house-trespass and knowing disobedience of a lawful order issued by a public servant, based on a complaint from the agency.

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