India, Aug. 6 -- Acting on a complaint filed by the Mumbai unit of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the VP Marg police station on Tuesday registered a case against Abdul Kader, an acquaintance of the late drug trafficker Iqbal Mirchi, for allegedly encroaching upon the erstwhile New Roshan Talkies in Khetwadi, according to officials aware of the developments.

Kader allegedly demolished the dilapidated and defunct single-screen cinema hall last year, despite knowing that the agency had attached the property, which belonged to Mirchi, as part of its money-laundering investigation into the latter's assets in October 2020, officials said.

When an ED team reached the property in December 2024 to take possession, it found that the nearly cen...