The Pune court has remanded drug lord Lalit Patil and his aides Rohit Chaudhary and Shivaji Shinde to police custody till November 7. “We have registered two separate FIRs—one is about the drug syndicate which Lalit Patil ran while inside Sassoon hospital and the other concerns how he fled from there,” said a source from Pune police.

According to the police, they have arrested 11 people and are in search of four others who helped Patil to run his drug business from inside Sasson hospital. The police had also recovered some drugs near the gate of the hospital. “We want to interrogate all the 11 accused face to face and hence we seek 14 days custody,” the Pune police said in court, asserting that Bhushan had revealed his brother Lalit Patil’s name during interrogation. The Pune court granted seven days of police custody after hearing the argument.