Mumbai: The Charkop unit of Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested a jail police on Friday, deployed at the higher safety cell (Anda Cell) at the Arthur Road Central Jail for passing on the handwritten chits penned by notorious gangster Harish Mandvikar to his aides. Police located the hyperlinks and produced the arrest, following which he was produced in a nearby magistrate court and was remanded in police custody till December 28.
Police stated, Mandvikar, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Arthur Road jail for murder, was passing chits to his henchmen and threatening a essential witness who was to depose just before the NDPS court against Sajid Electricwala, who is an undertrial prisoner for possession of contraband. Electricwala, the key accused, was arrested along with six other folks in 2015 immediately after police raided a manufacturing unit in Lokhandwala, Andheri and seized 155 kilograms of raw and completed Mephedrone worth crores of rupees.
The deposition of essential witnesses was underway when the Novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak halted all the proceedings in March this year, only to be resumed final month. One such witness was to depose on November 26, but was becoming issued threats to life and asking him to give false statements in favour of Electricwala by Sujit Padwalkar, who revealed that he was acting on the behest of Sachin Kolekar, an associate of notorious gangster Mandvikar.
During probe, it was revealed that Electricwala and Mandvikar hatched a conspiracy to threaten the witnesses and tamper with the court proceedings, following which the gangster sent out handwritten notes to his henchmen Kolekar by way of the jail police, who then sent the very same the gangster’s henchmen.
ATS Police stated that they have now arrested all accused in connection to the case of threats becoming issued to a essential witness in Electricwala’s drug possession case.