27 February,2024 07:10 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Mumbai police have arrested a member of the Chhota Rajan gang from Worli and recovered from him a country-made pistol and live rounds from Worli. The accused, identified as Shyam Tambe alias Savio Rodrigues (42), was nabbed on Monday, police said, reported PTI.
"The crime branch of the Mumbai police had received specific information that Tambe was coming to Jijamata Nagar area of Worli in central Mumbai. Accordingly, a trap was laid and he was apprehended," the official said. Police have recovered a country-made pistol and three live rounds from his possession.
As per PTI report, a case under the Arms Act was registered at the Worli police station, and the accused was formally placed under arrest. Tambe was an active member of the Chhota Rajan gang and was accused of several cases, including murder, attempt to murder, robbery, theft, and arms act, at various police stations in Mumbai.
Police said that probe into the case is underway.
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Meanwhile, in a development in the Antilia bomb threat case in Mumbai, a special court rejected the bail plea of former policeman Vinayak Shinde, an accused in the Antilia bomb scare and businessman Mansukh Hiran murder case. "The allegations against Shinde, who was on parole at the time of the Antilia bomb scare incident in February 2021, were true," the court stated in its order passed last month.
Shinde, serving life imprisonment in the fake encounter case of Ramnarayan Gupta, was accused of assisting former policeman Sachin Waze in collecting extortion money and obtaining dummy SIM cards.
The other accused, Naresh Gaur, an alleged cricket bookie, and Riyazuddin Kazi, a dismissed policeman, are currently out on regular bail, while the Supreme Court granted former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma medical bail.
The probe agency has arrested 10 people in connection with the February 25, 2021 incident when an explosives-laden vehicle was found parked near 'Antilia', Ambani's residence. Hiran was found dead a few days later in neighbouring Thane.
(With PTI inputs)
