4 accused remanded in police custody: Property dispute led to firing at real estate agent in Kandivali, say police

The three men who allegedly shot at D’Lima, were identified as Subhash Mohite (44), a Virar resident, Mangesh Chaudhari (40), a Pune resident and Roshan Singh alias Krishna (25), a Thane resident.

The four persons were arrested by the Mumbai crime branch from a forest in Pune where they were holed up, on Friday.

The Charkop police had Thursday arrested one more person, Munna Mayuddin Shaikh alias Guddu, who allegedly helped the accused including three shooters escape from Mumbai to Pune.

According to police, in 2019, Guddu was arrested by the crime branch after invoking MCOCA against him in a criminal case. A year ago he was out on bail.

Rajesh Chauhan also had previous cases and was arrested over the murder of Bunty Pradhan, the proprietor of Dolphin Properties in April 2014 in Mira Road.

Police are trying to get more details about him, said a said crime branch official official.

“It took the crime branch team more than a day to arrest all the four accused including shooters in Pune. The investigation is going on and more clarity will come soon,” the official added.

D’Lima was allegedly shot at by the three shooters around 2 pm on November 19 when he was leaving a school in Ganesh Nagar after meeting someone.

One bullet hit his abdomen and another hit on his chest, the police said. The shooters had covered their faces with masks, police said.

D’Lima, despite sustaining bullet injuries, drove to Oscar Hospital, where both the bullets lodged in his body were removed. Initially, the case was being probed by Charkop police but was transferred to the crime branch unit 11.