Cracking Manish Shrivas’s case can help police bust another don

Nagpur: Manish Shrivas, the sharpshooter of Diwakar Kottulwar’s gang that was behind murder of property-dealer Monty Gulhar in 2012, was never traced again after committing the crime that had once shaken the police force prompting them to invoke Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) in the case. Having already achieved a major landmark by simultaneously slapping big dons with MCOCA, another rare feat awaits the city police and its chief SP Yadav they are able to resolve Shrivas’ disappearance in the coming days.
A politically sheltered gangster may come under city police’s scanner if the mystery around untraceable Shrivas, who even have been murdered, is unfurled. The so-called murder may have been committed by Diwakar Kottulwar’s gang, already booked in MCOCA for second time for their alleged involvement in Ajay Raut’s kidnapping case, at the behest of the gangster who later on achieved a political feat too. Sending the don behind bar would mean breaking the back of the major crime syndicates in the region.
CP Yadav has already put city’s two major dons, Raju Bhadre and Santosh Ambekar, on the defensive by slapping them and their gangs with MCOCA within 48 hours. Another gang of north Nagpur, led by Goldie Bhullar and Jujhar Singh Dhillon, has been slapped with MCOCA. The gangster likely to behind murder of Shrivas is considered at par with Bhadre and Ambekar. Unfortunately, there is not even a missing complaint lodged by Shrivas’s family that is learnt to be still cowering under fear.
Yadav said arrests of Bhadre’s gang members, who are still at large in Raut’s kidnapping case, can help uncover Shrivas’ mystery. “We will interrogate the gang members in that direction too to ascertain what happened to Shrivas,” said the CP.
Sources claims that Shrivas was planning to eliminate a gangster but his plan leaked out that ended the game for him. In the meantime, Diwakar, his brother Ashish and their gang, had roped in Shrivas planning to take his support to gun down Gulhar. It is learnt Shrivas had shot Gulhar from a close range during the attack. Though some gang members of Diwakar were arrested, sources said some others killed Shrivas at a later date in a farmhouse in Waki, around 30 km away from city, before his body was burnt and ashes put in Kanhan river. The gangster, who got Shrivas murdered, ensured that case was never registered.
City police now have biggest opportunity to end the mystery as Raut’s kidnapping case, in which Bhadre and Diwakar along with gang have been booked under MCOCA, may throw light upon this episode too.