Fugitive Gangster Subhash Vitthal Pujari, alias Prasad Pujari, who is said to be close aide of gangster Chhota Rajan and Kumar Pillai, was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch. The officials said he had been wanted for the past 20 years, and had been living abroad.

After the Mumbai Crime Branch Anti-Extortion Cell officials brought him back to Mumbai on Saturday morning, he was produced before the special MCOCA court where he was granted 14 days custody. The crime branch who interrogated him during primary investigations, found that he had been running a mobile accessories shop in China, where he resided. “We arrested Prasad alias Vitthal Pujari from China,” said Lakhmi Gautam, Joint Commissioner of Police, Mumbai Crime Branch.