Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijaan, brother-in-law of fugitive gangster Chhota Shakeel and an accused in a terror-funding case, died on Friday evening at the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai.

He was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2022 in connection with a terror funding case registered against Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and some of his close aides.