Gawli and others to be produced in MCOCA court on Tuesday

Mumbai, Jun 15 (UNI) Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli and others will be produced in Maharashtra Control for Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Tuesday for remand in connection of murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar.

Recently, the crime branch sleuth had arrested 'Matka' King Prakash Chawla, in Jamsandekar murder case, who had allegedly paid Rs 5 lakh to Gawli for eliminating him. Chawla was booked under strigent act for abetting and providing funds to kill Jamsandekar.

During the interrogation of a co-accused it came to light that Chawla used to pay money for Navratri, Ganpati celebrations and for other needs of Gawli to run underworld syndicate activities.

Other accused in the case are Dinesh Narkar, Srikrishna Gurav alias Babu, Vijay Kumar Giri, Narendra Giri, Anil Giri, Ashok Jaiswal, Sahebrao Bhintude, Sadashiv Surve, Surendra Panchal and Sandeep Dongan.

They were booked under section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), 3 (1)(ii), 3 (2), 3(4) and 4 of the MCOC Act and 3 and 25 of the Arms Act.

It may recalled that Gawli had given a 'supari' (contract) of Rs 60,000 to kill Jamsandekar his associate and Akhil Bharatiya Sena member Srikrishna Gurav alias Babu.

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