Dreaded gangster Suresh Pujari has finally been nabbed after an operation that involved the Mumbai Crime Branch, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, as well as the Indian Embassy in Phillipines and Phillipines authorities. While the gangster was arrested by Philippines authorities in October following a tip-off by the Mumbai Crime Branch, the process to get him deported took several months with Pujari foiling two attempts to bring him to India. 

A team of ATS brought him to Delhi airport on Tuesday, from where he was arrested and then brought to Thane. He was then produced before the local court on Wednesday and has been remanded in ATS custody for 10 days. “Suresh Pujari was arrested by ATS, Maharashtra at about 2 am today, when he arrived at New Delhi Airport. He was brought to Mumbai in a commercial flight at about 9 am today. It was a classified operation which went off smoothly,” ATS said in a statement.