Mumbai, Mar 23 (UNI) The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has brought back notorious gangster Prasad Vitthal Pujari, who was arrested in February 2023 following an Interpol notice, officials said here on Saturday.
This is the first-ever deportation of a wanted fugitive by China, officials said.
Full bearded Poojary, 44, wearing jeans and a T-shirt and his face covered with the mask, along with a team of Mumbai Police sleuths, arrived here by an early morning flight, and he has been taken to a police lock-up.
Poojary had been on the run for over five years for various serious crimes; his name was figured in the failed shooting at a Shiv Sena activist, kidnappings, death threats, and extortion rackets targeting builders and prominent persons in Mumbai and other places.
As per investigations, Poojary had been living on a temporary residence visa in China since 2008, and after the country agreed to hand him over, the Mumbai Police had been pursuing the matter for several years before netting him today.
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