Police seek more warrants against arrested gangster

MUMBAI: The city crime branch has started gathering records of the cases against gangster Ravi Pujari, after he was arrested in Senegal in last week of January. The agency has already obtained fresh arrest warrants against Pujari in four extortion cases and is in the process of getting more.

Pujari, who has been on the run for the past 15 years, is in judicial detention after his arrest.

He is wanted in 51 cases of murder, extortion, shootouts, intimidation, among others, in the city, over the past three decades.

Since his arrest, the Mumbai police has been trying to obtain his custody under all the cases where he has been shown as wanted or an absconder.

Recently, the Mumbai police also moved a plea seeking a nonbailable warrant against Pujari in connection with a case registered for firing at noted criminal lawyer, Majid Memon, in 2005. As per the prosecution’s case, two gunmen shot at Memon when he was about to leave from his house in Bandra in July 2005. Memon had escaped unhurt in the firing.

Later, Pujari had taken responsibility for the attack.it is an important case as the police had managed to record his calls and also retrieve the tapes of his conversation to a news channel.

The voice samples from both the tapes had matched, creating strong evidence against him.