Vadodara Range IG Abhay Chudasama had received specific information about Khokhar's location and a team of R R Cell was dispatched to Pune to nab him.
Khokhar, who has nearly 30 criminal cases registered against him at different police stations of Bharuch, is allegedly the prime conspirator in murders of Pratik Patel (32) and Sandip Chana Patel (29), who were stabbed to death during the communal clashes that raged in Hansot village on January 14, 2015. He was booked under IPC Section 302 and declared absconder.
Hansot was engaged in communal tension for at least three months following the murder of the duo on Uttarayan day. Khokhar, who was also involved in illegal shrimp farming in Aliya Bet near Hansot, is also accused in the murder of local Congress man Sabir Kanuga, his one-time close friend. Both turned rivals after the state government cracked down on illegal shrimp ponds in December 2014.
Khokhar resurfaced in Hansot on June 6, 2017, and opened fire from his revolver on Kanuga, who died on the way to hospital. Kanuga, too, had several criminal cases against him and was a prominent Muslim leader. Khokhar escaped after killing him and was declared an absconder in this case too.
Police had lodged an FIR naming Khokhar, Mufti Abdullah of Darul Ulam in Hansot and 12 others. Kanuga and his supporters had accused the mufti of sodomising children. Mufti's close aide Salim Raj, too, had personal rivalry with Kanuga. The FIR had stated that Khokhar was given contract of killing Kanunga.
Police had arrested Mufti from Mumbai airport on June 17 when he was trying to escape from India.
Two other accused — Majid alias Monju Ghulam Rasul and Ahmed Ghulam Rasul from Surat — who were involved in the case, were also arrested.
by via Surat News, Latest Surat News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India
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