In a breakthrough in the murder of Punjabi rapper and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala, the Pune Rural Police have nabbed history-sheeter Santosh Jadhav - one of the eight suspects named by the Punjab police in the killing, said authorities on Monday.
According to police sources, Jadhav, along with another associate Nagnath Suryavanshi, were picked by the police from Gujarat and were produced before a district court judge late Sunday night following which they were remanded to police custody till June 20.
Jadhav was arrested as he was prime suspect in the murder of another history-sheeter, Omkar Bankhele. He was said to be the shooter in Bankhele’s killing, which had occurred in Pune district’s Manchar taluk last year.
