Man who threatened Vaishnavi's kin arrested from Nepal border

Nilesh Chavan, a close aide of the family of former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Rajendra Hagawane and accused of threatening Vaishnavi Hagawane's parents and others with a gun when they went to his house in Pimpri-Chinchwad to take custody of her child, has been held from the Nepal border, a police official said on Friday.

- Shrinivas Deshpande

PUNE:

The police nabbed Chavan near the Indo-Nepal border after a nine-day manhunt.

Acting on a tip-off, Crime Branch Unit 4, Anti-Gunda Squad and cyber cell of Pimpri-Chinchwad police arrested Chavan from Sonauli in Uttar Pradesh on Friday morning. He will be brought to Pune on a transit remand and expected to land at airport at around 2.30am on Saturday.

Vishal Gaikwad, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 2), Pimpri-Chinchwad police, said, "He will be produced in the court on Saturday."

According to the police, Chavan travelled to Raigad, Delhi, Gorakhpur, Sonauli and crossed the India-Nepal border at Bhairahawa and reached Kathmandu. He was nabbed from a private lodge when he returned to Sonauli.