Mumbai, Oct 19 (UNI) Tribhuvan Rampati Singh, an accused in the J J Hospital shootout case, which is one of the most sensational cases in Mumbai gangland history, was arrested by the city police after 32 years.
Singh was produced before a special court here on Saturday and remanded in police custody till October 25.
According to police, Singh was named as an accused in the case but had been absconding, living with a changed identity in Uttar Pradesh.
Recently, the police probe revealed that Singh, a member of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim gang, who is now in his 60s, was an undertrial prisoner in a jail at Mirzapur and sought his production.
The court had on September 30 issued a production warrant against Singh and directed the jail authority to produce him before it in Mumbai, following this, he was produced before a local court here and arrested by the police and remanded in police custody.
The J J shootout case is one of the most sensational cases in Mumbai gangland history, in which Singh along with 24 others was said to have barged into a ward of state run J J Hospital on September 12, 1992 and killed Shailesh Haldankar, a member of mafia don Arun Gawli gang, who was admitted in the hospital for treatment.
Haldankar was killed to avenge the murder of gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law Ismail Parkar, who was shot dead a few days earlier by the rival Gawli gang.