A 31-year-old member of Vikrant Deshmukh gang absconding since four years in a case of murder has been arrested in Maharashtra`s Navi Mumbai township, police said on Monday, reported news agency PTI.
The accused, Rakesh Janardhan Koli, and other members of the gang allegedly kidnapped Nerul area resident Sachin Garje in September 2019 over an enmity, killed him and dumped the body in the Uran creek, a crime branch official said.
The Navi Mumbai gangster later fished out the body, burnt it to destroy the evidence and buried it underground near the creek, the official said, reported PTI.
After the arrest of four members of the gang and their interrogation, the police got to know about the disposal of the body which was later exhumed.
Deshmukh was arrested in 2022 from Goa and some of his other associates were also nabbed subsequently, the police said.
The Navi Mumbai gangster and the other accused were charged under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Arms Act and provisions of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) were also imposed against them, the police said, reported PTI.
Koli, who is the 17th accused in the case, was on the run and kept changing his locations as he moved from one district to another in the state, reported PTI.
Acting on a tip-off that he was scheduled to come to Ghavangaon in Uran, the police laid a trap on Saturday and nabbed him as he arrived there, the official said, reported PTI.
He was produced before a local court on Sunday which remanded him in police custody till March 7, the official added.
In another case, a 28-year-old woman has lodged a complaint against a Shiv Sena leader and his son in Navi Mumbai, alleging that the duo had repeatedly raped her and her mother, police said on Sunday, reported PTI.
The woman approached the Amboli police station on Saturday with a complaint against the Shiv Sena leader and his son, and no FIR has been registered so far, an official said, reported PTI.
As per the complaint, the accused leader was helping the woman obtain a divorce from her husband. The father-son duo had allegedly repeatedly raped the woman and her mother at different locations and blackmailed them, he said, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
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