Pune. The Pune Police’s Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) has arrested Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) key witness Kiran P Gosavi in a cruise party raid on October 2. Significantly, Gosavi is wanted in cases of fraud. Gosavi was apprehended from a lodge in Katraj and brought to the police headquarters, Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta told mediapersons.
“Let me be clear. We have arrested him. He has not surrendered,” Gupta said of Gosavi.
According to the police, Tech-Intel found out that Gosavi was roaming and hiding in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Jalgaon, Lucknow, Hyderabad and other places in the country, the police team was chasing him.
Gupta said, “Sometimes, he used Sachin Patil’s nickname and stayed in different places. He is saying a lot. Let’s not get into details at this stage.”
When asked if Gosavi had been offering to surrender for several days, Gupta said, “He was saying that, but did he (surrender)?”
The accused, caught in an old case filed in 2018, is claiming to be a private detective, he said. He is also saying that he is working in an export-import business, in the field of electronic gadgets. We will investigate all these things.
Earlier, special teams of Pune police nabbed Gosavi on the outskirts of the city around 3.30 am on Thursday.
He was taken into custody and taken to Pune Police Headquarters, where he was kept in a police lockup before completing post-arrest formalities, and was interrogated by a team led by the Pune Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Cases have been registered against Gosavi in Mumbai, Thane and Pune and he had moved out of the state after his name came up in the NCB raid case and was allegedly in various states.
Two days ago, after receiving the lookout notice, he announced to surrender before the Mandiao Police (Uttar Pradesh) at midnight in Lucknow, but he did not do so.
Official sources say his ‘surrender attempts’ allegedly failed in front of police in at least two states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, and he finally managed to reach Maharashtra, where the AEC arrested him on Thursday morning. .
Gosavi is among 10 people summoned by the agency’s vigilance team to record statements in the probe into alleged corruption allegations against NCB regional director Sameer Wankhede in Mumbai.
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