After managing to evade arrest for over nine years, underworld don Chhota Rajan’s brother-in-law, Jaywant Rajaram Mule (52), was nabbed in Thane on Wednesday night by officials from Anti-Robbery and Dacoity Cell of the Crime Branch.

They said Mule had hired shooters to kill Sanjay Gupta, owner of Supreme Satellite Vision, a Cable and Internet providing company, in Navi Mumbai. Mule and Rajan are childhood friends and became in-laws after Mule married Rajan’s sister.