The handler of gangster Chhota Rajan's finances, Santosh Mahadev Sawant aka Abu Sawant, was deported to India, in a joint operation by the Central Bureau of India (CBI) and the Mumbai Crime Branch.
Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 6 has arrested five drug peddlers from the Santacruz area and seized drugs worth Rs 49 lakhs in the international market, Mumbai Police said on Saturday.
The probe will be led by Lakhmi Gautam, joint commissioner of police, Mumbai Crime Branch. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Krishnakant Upadhyay and Assistant Commissioner of Police Jai Prakash Bhosale are also part of the team, Mumbai Police said.
In a Mira Bhayandar bomb blast call case Nationalist Congress Party MLA Yashwant Mane has written a letter to Mumbai police on Friday and alleged that his number was cloned to make the call.
Unit 10 of the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested a person named Santosh Shivaji Dhanvade from the Jogeshwari area. Crime Branch officials recovered a country-made pistol and 3 live cartridges from the accused.
Police said she was mixing arsenic and thallium in her husband's food. He was hospitalised on September 3 due to slow poisoning and died 17 days later.
The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested five men after the complainant told the police that his property worth Rs 25 crore was usurped through forged documents.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 11 (ANI): The Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested five people associated with fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's D company in connection with an extortion case.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 1 (ANI): Mumbai Crime Branch today took Salim Fruit, an accused in a Rs 62 lakh extortion case and a relative of Chhota Shakeel, into its custody from jail after a court sent him to Crime Branch custody till October 6.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 27 (ANI): Anti-Extortion Cell of Mumbai Crime Branch on Monday arrested underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide Riyaz Bhati from the Andheri area in connection with an extortion case, said Mumbai Crime Branch.