Pujari arrested for threat to Sena leader

Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) arrested gangster Prasad Pujari alias Subhash Vitthal on Friday in connection with a 2023 case where he had allegedly threatened Shiv Sena leader Chandrashekhar Jadhav several times from Hong Kong.

- Manish Kumar Pathak

MUMBAI: He is remanded to police custody till Monday.

On December 19, 2019, Jadhav had gone to a Sai Baba temple near his residence in Tagore Nagar, Vikhroli (East). Two shooters, Shetty and Sagar Mishra, followed him into the temple. While Shetty stood outside the temple, Mishra went in and fired five to six bullets at him, resulting in injury to his right arm. Jadhav's son, with help from passersby, nabbed Mishra, but Shetty managed to escape on his bike. He was, however, arrested based on CCTV footage from outside the temple.