Mumbai cops nab fugitive bookie from Gujarat

MUMBAI: In a major breakthrough, the Mumbai Police tracked and arrested, from near Ahmedabad, a Thane bookie, who was absconding for over five years, for his role in the sensational case pertaining to threats, blackmail and bribes offer to the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s wife, a top official said here on Monday.

The accused is Anil Jaisinghani - whose daughter and fashionista Aniksha was arrested last week - both from Ulhasnagar town in Thane after a complaint was lodged by the banker-singer Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.

“We had put him under tech intel surveillance for the past five days, but he was constantly on the move in different towns of Gujarat. Finally we tracked him to Kalol in Gujarat. He was caught along with an associate just before midnight and brought to Mumbai,” Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Cell, Dr. Balsing Rajput said. Rajput said the accused Jaisinghani has at least 15 cases registered against him and later handed him over to the Malabar Hill Police which would produce him before a magistrate’s court.

The police have seized several mobiles, laptops, Internet devices and other things from the arrested duo in the 72-hour-long “Operation AJ”, he added.

“He was arrested in a joint operation with Gujarat Police. The accused is an expert in Internet and mobile technology and could also communicate in an encrypted manner,” the DCP said.

Last week, Amruta Fadnavis’ police complaint of February shot to headlines, in which she had accused attempts made by the Jaisinghani father-daughter to frame her, threaten, blackmail and bribe her with Rs 1 crore, after which Fadnavis - who holds the home portfolio - ordered a probe. (IANS)

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