Music baron Gulshan Kumar

Mumbai: A sessions court today sent Abdul Rauf Merchant, a convict in the music baron Gulshan Kumar murder case who absconded after jumping parole in 2009, to Arthur Road jail here following his re-arrest from Indo-Bangladesh border.

Merchant, an aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was released from a prison in Bangladesh on Monday. Border Security Force arrested him from the border in Meghalaya and informed Mumbai Police which brought him here. He was first produced before the high court, and on the high court's direction, Merchant was produced before a sessions court here, said a Mumbai crime branch official. The sessions court ordered that he be sent to Arthur Road jail in the city.