The Mumbai police on Friday arrested three members of the Ravi Pujari gang and seized a country-made weapon and 10 rounds of ammunition from them.
“We nabbed them at Kurla while they were on their way to commit another offence,” Joint Commissioner of Police Himanshu Roy told journalists here on Saturday.
The three, along with another member who died in a road accident last month, had shot at two employees of the Ekta group at their Pathardi office in Nashik on February 25.
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The arrested are Sanjay Ram Bahadur Singh alias Thapa (33), Arvind Chavan (38) and Vikas Singh (33). Vikas Singh's brother Santosh Singh, who was also involved in the crime, died in a road accident in Madhepura in March, Mr. Roy said.
The case is a classic example of inter-gang operation where two unrelated modules are instructed to commit the offence together.
“The members received instructions on their cell phones, and they identified each other on the basis of code words. While one group was instructed by Ravi Pujari himself, the other was instructed by an associate of Pujari,” Mr. Roy said.
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A local court on Saturday remanded the three in police custody till May 6.
“After that we will hand them over to the Nashik police,” the Joint Commissioner said.