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Pune police book former PCB member under MCOCA
Pune: The city police have invoked the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against former BJP elected member of Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) Vivek Yadav after orders to the effect were issued by Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta
Pune: The city police have invoked the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against former BJP elected member of Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) Vivek Yadav after orders to the effect were issued by Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta.
Yadav who is currently lodged in jail has been arrested on charges of plotting the murder of his rival Bablu Gawli by hiring two assassins to liquidate him. According to the Kondhwa police, Yadav was fired upon by Gawli during Ganesha celebrations in 2016 and he had been nursing revenge since then.
He hired the services of a convict Rajan Rajmani who was currently out of Yerawada Central Jail on parole. Kondhwa police station incharge Sardar Patil confirmed that Yadav had been booked under MCOCA. According to the Kondhwa police, during investigation following the arrest of Yadav, it was revealed that he was involved in running an organised crime gang aimed at spreading terror in the society.
The MCOCA proposal was sent to Zonal DCP Namrata Patil who vetted it and sent it to Addl CP Namdev Chavan for approval. Addl CP Chavan gave approval to the proposal and the gang has been accordingly booked under the act. ACP Rajendra Galande is investigating the case. Yadav was arrested from Gujarat-Rajasthan border and brought to Pune and the policemen submitted a list of cases against him when he was produced before cantonment court on seeking his custodial interrogation. The WhatsApp chats of arrested criminal Rajan Rajmani and Husain Shaik revealed that Yadav allegedly gave an ‘online supari’ (contract) to kill Gawli. The police had seized three pistols, seven bullets, and three magazines from Rajmani and Shaikh and were searching for an arms provider.
