Mumbai Crime Branch nabs Gangster Ilyas Bachkana from Bengaluru

The CIU team with Ilyas Bachkana at CP office on Sunday

Notorious gangster Ilyas Abdul Aziz Khan alias Ilyas Bachkana, who was absconding for the past year, has been apprehended by the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of Mumbai Crime Branch from Bengaluru on Sunday. CIU made the arrest based on specific input that he was going to bet on bike and car racing in Bengaluru. Bachkana has 37 criminal cases registered against him which includes murder, attempt to murder, extortion, dacoity and supari killings etc.

CIU was keeping a tab on the gangster since July last year after an attempt to murder case was registered against him, but he managed to evade cops. "In a bid to not leave any trace, he used to change his mobile phone, used virtual private networks and also carried a dongle so that he could put the phone on flight mode and still access the internet," said an officer privy to the investigation.

Earlier, CIU officials had traced him to Nagpada but he managed to flee. "This time we got his exact location in a Bengaluru hotel and he was apprehended during a secret operation," said Neelotpal, DCP, Detection, Mumbai Crime Branch.

Bachkana has been brought to Mumbai and handed over to Byculla Police which is probing a contract killing case and slapped stringent sections of Maharashtra Crime Organised Control Act (MCOCA) against him. He was produced before special MCOCA court on Monday which remanded him in police custody till March 11.

He has been under CIU scanner after Byculla police arrested developer Hifzur Rahman Ansari for allegedly conspiring with Bachkana and his gang to kill a south Mumbai-based nut and bolts wholesale dealer in April last year.

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No. of cases filed against Bachkana