Accused Sunil Shitap in police custody. Pic/Rajesh Gupta

Sunil Shitap had forcibly taken custody of the flats on the ground floor of Siddhi Sai Apartment in 2007 and converted them into a hospital, inquiries into his alleged wrongdoings have revealed. Survivors told mid-day that the Shiv Sena leader had thrown out the owner of the flats after the latter had failed to repay a loan he had taken from Shitap.