Maharashtra: Gangster Sharad Mohol shot dead in Pune

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Gangster Sharad Mohol was on Friday shot dead in Maharashtra's Pune. He was hospitalised after being injured in the shootout where he was later declared dead, the police said, reported the PTI.

According to the news agency, three to four assailants opened fire on Mohol (40) at point blank range in Sutardara locality in Kothrud around 1.30 pm. A bullet pierced his chest and two bullets entered the right shoulder, the police official said.

He died during treatment at a private hospital in Kothrud, the official added.

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One person was nabbed while multiple teams have been formed to nab the remaining assailants, he said.

Mohol had several cases including those of murder and dacoity registered against him. He was an accused in the case related to the murder of suspected Indian

Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui inside the Yerawada jail here, but was acquitted.

A dispute over land and money within his gang is suspected to have led to his killing, the official said.

Speaking to reporters, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis said it was not a gangwar as Mohol was killed by his own associates.

"As our government knows how to deal with such notorious elements, no one dares to get involved in a gangwar," he said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident, former model Divya Pahuja, who was arrested by Mumbai Police in 2016 in connection with the fake encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli, has been reportedly killed inside a hotel in Gurugram. Her boyfriend has been detained by the police that has been searching for her body which was seen being dragged by the two men in a corridor of the hotel, official sources said on Wednesday.

The cops suspect that the hotel owner Abhijeet Singh, who Pahuja was out to celebrate a new year party, is allegedly the prime suspect in the murder and disposing of her body.

The prime suspect's accomplices carried the body in a BMW car which was headed towards Punjab, said a police source, who added, "The killer has spent around Rs. 10 lakh to dispose of her body."

After being imprisoned for seven years in the Sandeep Gadoli fake encounter case, Pahuja was released on bail last year and since then she had been dating a South Delhi-based businessman who has been taken into custody of Gurugram police in Haryana.

Pahuja had left home to celebrate new year party with Singh, and later she reached Hotel City Point in Gurugram on January 2 with him and one more person. However, she suddenly went incommunicado.

(with PTI inputs)