19-Oct-2024 09:25 PM
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Mumbai, Oct 19 (Reporter) A fugitive in the 1992 JJ Hospital shootout case has been arrested after 32 years.
Tribhuvan Singh was produced before a special court in Mumbai on Saturday and sent to police custody till October 25.
The arrested individual has been identified as Tribhuvan Singh, also known as Pradhan or Shripati Shrikant Rai, aged 62.
According to police, Singh was named as an accused in the case but had been absconding, living with a changed identity in Uttar Pradesh.
Recently, the police probe showed that Singh, a member of the underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim gang who is now in his 60s, was an undertrial prisoner in a jail in Mirzapur and sought his production.
The court had on September 30 issued a production warrant against Singh and directed the jail authority to produce him before it in Mumbai. Following this, he was produced before a local court here, arrested by the police, and also remanded into police custody.
The J J shootout case is one of the most sensational cases in Mumbai gangland history. Singh, along with 24 others, was said to have barged into a ward of the state-run J J Hospital on September 12, 1992, and killed Sailesh Haldankar, a member of the Mafia Don Arun Gawli gang who was admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Haldankar was killed to avenge the murder of gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother-in-law Ismail Parkar, who was shot dead a few days earlier by the Gawli gang...////...