Jun 28 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai)
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gangster Kumar Pillai, wanted for the murder of an MLA in 1990, arrived at the city airport from Singapore by Air India flight 343 at 10.20 pm.Pillai, who was escorted by the police, was whisked away to the police headquarters.
Sources in the police said he is likely to be booked under MCOCA and produced in the Esplanade court on Tuesday .
Pillai, who had fled the country in the mid-1990s, was detained by the Singapore police in January .
The city police, who had kept tabs on Pillai for a month through their network of informants, had alerted the Singaporean authorities about Pillai's address in Singapore from where he was detained in the presence of his wife in January . He ran an import-export business in Singapore, said police sources. A textile engineer, Pillai had allegedly killed MLA Lal Singh Chavan in 1990, to “avenge his father's murder“. His father was killed as he had refused to sell his club to a politician, said sources.
Pillai is also accused of having planned the murder of the owner of Byculla's Khatau mill, Sunil Khatau, in 1994.
Gangster wanted in 1990 MLA murder brought back to city
MumbaiTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gangster Kumar Pillai, wanted for the murder of an MLA in 1990, arrived at the city airport from Singapore by Air India flight 343 at 10.20 pm.Pillai, who was escorted by the police, was whisked away to the police headquarters.
Sources in the police said he is likely to be booked under MCOCA and produced in the Esplanade court on Tuesday .
Pillai, who had fled the country in the mid-1990s, was detained by the Singapore police in January .
The city police, who had kept tabs on Pillai for a month through their network of informants, had alerted the Singaporean authorities about Pillai's address in Singapore from where he was detained in the presence of his wife in January . He ran an import-export business in Singapore, said police sources. A textile engineer, Pillai had allegedly killed MLA Lal Singh Chavan in 1990, to “avenge his father's murder“. His father was killed as he had refused to sell his club to a politician, said sources.
Pillai is also accused of having planned the murder of the owner of Byculla's Khatau mill, Sunil Khatau, in 1994.
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