S Ahmed Ali

Mumbai, Mar 30 (TOI): The anti-terrorism squad (ATS) has claimed it solved the case of firing at the construction site of Sudharkar Shetty, where the builder's two employees were gunned down by the fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari earlier this month.

The ATS has arrested two key members of the Pujari gang—Jitendra Deepak Sonkar (36) and Mangesh Prakash Ukke (27)—and have recovered six 7.65 mm pistols from them.

The police said that the two were arrested when they were about to hand over weapons to unidentified shooters. According to the police, the ATS (Juhu unit) had received information that two key suppliers of weapons to the Pujari gang were likely to come outside a hotel at Santa Cruz.
The police laid a trap and arrested Sonkar and Ukke and recovered six pistols from them.

ATS chief Rakesh Maria said, "We have booked the accused under the Arms Act. It appears that the weapons recovered are similar to the ones used in shooting the builder's men."

Maria said that the duo may spill the beans on the Pujari gang and particularly those two who shot dead Shetty's employees— Somraj Dev0raj, site engineer and Yogesh Kude, the supervisor, on March 15 at Amboli, Andheri.