Gangster Suresh Pujari Brought To India From Philippines. Mumbai Crime Branch To Take Custody

Suresh Pujari has been deported to India. Pujari, who has 25 offences registered against him in Mumbai, was nabbed in the Philippines in October.

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New Delhi: Gangster Suresh Pujari has been brought to India from the Philippines on late Tuesday night and will be handed over to the Mumbai crime branch.

A senior police official on Wednesday confirmed that Suresh Pujari, wanted in several extortion cases in Mumbai and Karnataka, has been deported to India. Pujari, who has 25 offences registered against him in Mumbai, was nabbed in the Philippines in October.

Pujari, on the run for the past 15 years, was brought back to India after he was arrested and extradited from the Philippines.

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Intelligence Bureau (IB) and CBI officials took his custody after he landed at the Delhi airport. He will be handed over to Mumbai Police after the central agencies interrogate him. A Mumbai crime branch team is already in Delhi to take his custody.

Mumbai and Thane police had issued red-corner notices against him in 2017 and 2018 respectively after several extortion cases. Altogether 23 extortion cases have been registered against him in Thane.

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Suresh is a close relative of gangster Ravi Pujari and separated from him in 2007. He then fled abroad.

Early in his career in crime, he worked with underworld don Chhota Rajan and Ravi Pujari and later formed his own gang.

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(With PTI Inputs)