Drug trafficker Lalit Patil has been remanded to Yerawada Central Jail by a particular courtroom within the metropolis late on Friday. Alongside Patil, the courtroom additionally remanded Jishan Sheikh, Shivaji Shinde, and Rahul Pandit to judicial custody. Moreover, the courtroom prolonged the police custody of Patil’s brother Bhushan Patil, together with Harish Pant, Arvind Kumar Lohare, and Ibrahim Shaikh till November 29.
Earlier, the police invoked provisions of the Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in opposition to Patil and his associates.
Patil, the first accused in a ₹300 crore mephedrone seizure case, was arrested in Bengaluru on October 17, over two weeks after his escape from the government-run Sassoon Hospital. A trustee of an academic institute within the metropolis was arrested for facilitating his hospital escape.
The Pune police, on September 30, apprehended a person exterior Sassoon hospital and seized mephedrone value ₹2 crore from him. The investigation led to the arrest of a hospital canteen worker who claimed that Patil equipped the medication whereas he was admitted to the hospital.
Patil then escaped from the hospital on October 2 throughout a go to for X-ray imaging. Arrested in 2022 in a drug case in Chakan, Pune district, he had been housed in Pune’s Yerawada jail and subsequently admitted to the hospital for the previous three months.
In line with police sources, Patil was pushed by the worry of spending the remainder of his life in jail after one other case was registered in opposition to him on September 30 and therefore escaped from the hospital. ”The courtroom didn’t grant Patil bail within the case of drug possession in Chakan for 3 years. He was scared after the second case was registered in opposition to him on September 30. Patil has confessed within the police investigation that he escaped from Sassoon Hospital as a result of he was afraid that he must keep in jail for the remainder of his life,” police sources stated.
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September 30 – Pune police apprehend a person exterior Sassoon Hospital and seize mephedrone value ₹2 crore from him
October 2 – Lalit Patil escapes from Sassoon Hospital on October 2 throughout a go to for X-ray imaging
October 17 – Saki Naka police nab Patil from Bengaluru