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The Mumbai constabulary person taken custody of gangster Ravi Pujari successful transportation with a 2018 lawsuit of attempting to extort ₹50 lakh from choreographer Remo D'Souza and his wife, officials said connected Friday (January 23, 2026).
The transgression branch's anti-extortion compartment (AEC) took Pujari's custody from the Bengaluru situation and produced him successful a tribunal successful Mumbai connected Thursday (January 22), they said.
Mr. Pujari has been remanded successful constabulary custody till January 27, an authoritative said.
The 56-year-old gangster had allegedly threatened D'Souza and his woman successful 2018, demanding ₹50 lakh from them, pursuing a fiscal quality betwixt the choreographer and a movie producer.
Mr\. Pujari has 49 cases to his sanction successful Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Karnataka.
The extortion lawsuit is the 2nd among the 9 pending cases against the gangster for which his custody has been taken, the authoritative said.
The Senegal authorities past twelvemonth approved prosecution of the gangster successful 9 cases, including 3 successful which the stringent Maharashtra Control Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been invoked, helium said.
