MUMBAI: A Chhota Rajan gang member, who was absconding in a 16-year-old murder attempt, has been arrested from the eastern suburbs here, police said on Friday. A team from Deonar police station arrested the accused, Vilas Balaram Pawar alias Raju (62), from Chembur area on Thursday night, an official said.
He said Pawar is involved in serious crimes like murder and attempt to murder and has cases registered against him under the Arms Act.
The accused had allegedly shot and injured a man in Ghatla village in 1992 and was arrested in the case, released on bail in 2008 and has remained absconding since then, the official said.
He kept changing locations to evade arrest, he said.
The official said Pawar lived in Nerul area of Navi Mumbai and supplied labor to construction sites.
He said the accused was an active member of the Chhota Rajan gang and was involved in the shooting death of a man in Dadar in the 1990s, the official said.
The official said Pawar was produced before a court on Friday and remanded in judicial custody.
