Ghaywal's associates had allegedly shot and injured a man and attacked another with a sharp weapon in a road rage incident in the Kothrud area of Pune in September
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The Pune police have slapped the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) on fugitive gangster Nilesh Ghaywal, against whom multiple cases are pending, an official said, reported news agency PTI.
Ghaywal's associates had allegedly shot and injured a man and attacked another with a sharp weapon in a road rage incident in the Kothrud area of Pune in September.
He faces numerous cases, including murder, extortion, assault, illegal possession of weapons (Arms Act), and fraud related to obtaining a passport.
The Kothrud police on Wednesday invoked provisions of the MCOCA against the city-based gangster, the official said on Wednesday, reported PTI.
The British High Commission in India last month confirmed that Ghaywal is in London on a 'visitor' visa, and also informed the UK authorities back home about the revocation of his passport, police earlier said.
The Pune police had suspected that Ghaywal was in the United Kingdom. Hence, they contacted the British High Commission seeking his detention and deportation.
The gangster is believed to have fled India by fraudulently obtaining a passport.
The Pune police have already issued a lookout notice for Ghaywal and sought a blue corner notice through Interpol.
A few days before he disappeared, a case had been registered against Ghaywal in Pune after his associates allegedly shot and injured a person in the Kothrud area here following a road rage incident on September 18.
Earlier, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said that he has instructed the Pune police to take the strongest possible action over the illegal acquisition of a passport by fugitive gangster Nilesh Ghaywal, reported news agency PTI.
"I have given clear instructions to the Pune police commissioner to take the strongest action against those who try to violate the rules and take the law into their own hands," Pawar said, responding to the row over the fugitive gangster, reported PTI.
Meanwhile, NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule expressed outrage over Ghaywal obtaining the passport.
"How could a person involved in serious crimes, such as drugs, go abroad on a forged passport?" she asked.
Sule stated she will raise the issue of forged passports with the External Affairs Ministry and will seek the intervention of Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.
(With inputs from PTI)
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