The crime branch has arrested a close aide of gangster Chhota Rajan after more than two decades, discovering in the process that he had changed from 'Hindu don' Amar Baburao Wagh to Yasin Mohammed Khan.

Wagh, who had been absconding since being granted bail in a dacoity case in 1996, lived in plain sight at Nalasopara for the past 23 years after converting to Islam and changing his name to Yasin Mohammed Khan. He was declared a proclaimed offender in 1997 after he vanished following his bail.