Pune police seek UK help to deport fugitive gangster Ghaywal

PUNE: (Oct 29) The Pune police suspect that city-based gangster Nilesh Ghaywal is currently in the United Kingdom after fraudulently obtaining a passport and have written to the British High Commission seeking his detention and deportation, an official said.

The police believe that Ghaywal, wanted in multiple cases including murder and extortion, has gone to the UK as his son lives there, the official said on Tuesday.

A few days before he disappeared, a case had been registered against him in the city after his associates allegedly shot and injured a person in the Kothrud area of the city following a road rage incident on September 18.