Gangster Prasad Poojari brought to Mumbai from China

Gangster Prasad Poojari brought to Mumbai from China

The deportation of the gangster was necessitated after China approved to it. He was holed up there for the past few years.

Prasad Poojari is one of the last remaining gangsters operating from foreign shores and who made extortion calls to India.
He was brought to Mumbai by a team of crime branch officers in the wee hours on Saturday.

The move comes after China approved the deportation of the gangster, who was holed up there for the past few years.

As per a senior officer, this is the first time a gangster is being deported from China as usually they are not positive to such requests from us.

The officer added that Poojari has nine cases against him in Mumbai where he was involved in a case of firing in Vikhroli in 2019 while in 2023 he had last made an extortion call to a city builder.

Last year in March, Poojari was
was caught on the Interpol’s notice in Hong Kong in March while on his run since 2010,

His file and DNA samples of his family, particularly his mother, were annexed with the dossier to be sent to the Chinese government that was translated to Mandarin.

Reportedly, since April last year India had been trying to get him deported since April last year when China gave in principle approval to deport him.

Poojari, on the run since 2010, was caught on the Interpol’s notice in Hong Kong in March last year. Poojari’s file and DNA samples of his family, particularly his mother, were annexed with the dossier to be sent to the Chinese government that was translated to Mandarin.

Poojari, a former member of deported gangster Kumar Pillai and Chhota Rajan, is believed to have married a Chinese national and was about to take a flight along with his Chinese wife from Hong Kong when authorities detained him.

In 2020, the anti-extortion cell of the crime branch had arrested one Sagar Jadhav and five others over firing on a Shiv Sena functionary.

Amidst a probe, police learnt on the alleged role of Poojari’s mother Indira (60) in the case. The crime branch later arrested her for allegedly helping her son run an extortion racket in the city.

News Edit K.V.Raman