Crime Branch officials arrested a goon-turned-politician from Pune for planning to kill the uncle of a BJP MLA from Maval with the help of gangster Chhota Shakeel&rsquo;s men. Officials recovered a country-made pistol, four cartridges and a motorcycle from the accused.
<img title="Chhota Shakeel" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/dec/Chhota-Shakeel.jpg" alt="Chhota Shakeel" /> Chhota Shakeel
API Nitin Patil from Property Cell, Crime Branch, received a tip-off that Shakeel&rsquo;s aide Mehmood Hussein Abdul Hussein Aziz Shaikh, who has three murder cases registered against him in Mumbai, was planning to kill Nau Shelar, BJP MLA Sanjay Bhegade alias Bala&rsquo;s uncle, with the help of his four accomplices.
&ldquo;They got the supari to kill the MLA&rsquo;s relative, as he was giving them a hard time in business while supplying labourers to industries and in land dealings,&rdquo; said Dilip Phulpagre, assistant police inspector of the Mumbai Crime Branch.
Commenting on the case, Dhananjay Kulkarni, spokesperson for Mumbai Police, said, &ldquo;A few of our officers got a tip-off about the plot, following which they raided a bungalow at Akurdi on Dehu Road, Pune, on Thursday and arrested the three accused.&rdquo;
Police arrested Shaikh, his accomplices Ganesh Bhilare and Congress leader Amin Mehboob Shaikh, who is also the former vice-president of the Dehu Road Cantonment Board. Shaikh has around 23 cases against him and was with the NCP before he migrated to the Congress party.
&ldquo;Our officers did an excellent job. Had they not nabbed the accused in time, Chhota Shakeel&rsquo;s aide would have killed Shelar,&rdquo; said Sadanand Date, joint commissioner of police, Mumbai Crime Branch.

Pune-based Amin Mehboob Shaikh, had given a shooter from Shakeel's gang a supari to kill BJP MLA Sanjay Bhegade's uncle, as he was giving him a hard time in business

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