Cops allege Gawli is behind Baldev Singh’s abduction

Meanwhile, underworld sources said Singh and two others who had initially filed affidavits saying they had seen police kill Sada Pawle and Vijay Tandel in cold blood, were being held captive by Gawli’s men. Only Anand, they said, was allowed to attend the court by the gangsters.

All four have already turned hostile and sources said Daddy’s men were now trying to keep them away from the court to prevent them from causing more damage to the case. While the two women had appeared before the court tofile their affidavits, Anand and Baldev had filed their affidavits through their counsel.

All witnesses had claimed in their second affidavit that they were under intense pressure from their relatives to file affidavits against the police. Police claimed “relatives” here meant Gawli’s boys. Singh, had left his Tembi Pada, Bhandup residence, on Wednesday at 10 am and has gone missing since. In his earlier affidavit, Singh, an employee of railways, had mentioned that sub-inspector, Hemant Desai had forced him to sign the muster on September 27 and issue receipts of fine collected. However, later he retracted this statement and said he had lied to help his colleague, Anand Pawle. Hailing from a conservative Sikh family and born in the house of Sardar Jaswant Singh, Baldev, liked studies and he was very good at sports too. Thirty-year-old, Baldev joined the Central Railway service in 1990 and is currently a senior ticket collector, reporting to the Central Railway headquarters at Kalyanjunction.

“Abduction and illegal confinement of witnesses is not something new for the Gawli gang…they have done it in past also,” said a senior police officer who was present in the court today. For instance, a certain Hansraj, another witness in the Chandraprabha Gajre case, had met the same fate.