Mumbai:
Lure for easy money transformed two employees of a hotel into dreaded gangsters for don Hemant Pujari, today they are cooling their heels in police custody. The duo was identified as Ganpat Prajapati, 36, and Janardan Pujari, 30.
Both are residents of Dombivli; while Prajapati is a cook, Pujari is a waiter. "Both became members of the notorious Hemant Pujari gang and were in direct contact with him," said additional police commissioner Dhananjay Kamlakar.
Crime branch officials arrested the duo, after they threatened a Thane-based developer and demanded money.
According to police, Hemant Pujari was threatening the developer for extortion money to the tune of Rs25 lakh since last month. "Hemant Pujari asked the developer to handover the money to Prajapati near Thane station," informed deputy police commissioner Dattatray Karale.
He added, "But senior police inspector Sunil Patil trapped him. Later police arrested Janardan Pujari with a firearm from Ulhasnagar."
Both wanted to earn easy money to fund their lavish lifestyle and hence Janardan, who hailed from Udipi (Hemant Pujari's native place) used his contacts to enter into world of crime. The underworld gangs are known to tap ordinary people, who don't have police records, and indoctrinate them. Both are remanded in police custody till October 22
Gangland history: - According to the police there are two separate gangs headed by Ravi Pujari and Hemant Pujari
- Thane police arrested six members of the Ravi Pujari gang with weapons. Police applied MCOCA against them and a hawala racket link also surfaced, after their arrest
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