The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two persons for threatening a witness in a drugs case to give deposition in favour of the accused, on the behest of a gangster. The gangster, Harish Mandvikar, sent hand-written chits to his associate from inside Mumbai Central Prison at Arthur Road, instructing him to coerce the witness. Mandvikar is serving life sentence for murder at the prison, states a press release by ATS.

The arrested accused were identified as Sujit Padwalkar and Sachin Kolekar alias Pintu.