The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested five people, including deceased matka king Suresh Bhagat's brother Vinod Bhagat, for allegedly plotting to kill the former's widow Jaya Bhagat and her sister Asha Bhagat.

According to officers from the Crime Branch's Unit 9, Vinod had paid a contract killer in Manchester, the UK, to murder the two women. The contract killer, Bashir Suleman Begani alias Maamu alias Turk Talab, had then hired four people to eliminate the duo.