MARBELLA CLUB

Gangster Rajesh More alias Raju, 38, of the Karanjikar gang, has been arrested by the Mulund police. Acting on a tip-off that More would come to a hotel at Panch Rasta in Mulund, the police laid a trap and nabbed him at midnight on Wednesday. On Thursday, he was remanded in police custody till September 17. More, who had earlier worked as a sharp shooter for underworld don-turned-MLA Arun Gawli, joined Vinayak Dattaram Karanjikar who also parted ways with Gawli and formed his own gang. He has been working for Karanjikar since the late 1990s and has cases of murder, attempt to murder, extortion and kidnapping registered against him at police stations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane. Police first got clues about More when he and some other members of the Karanjikar gang threatened a builder from Mulund on August 31 last year. When they barged into the builder’s office wielding guns and asked the staff to make a call to someone called as Bhai, their act was caught on the CCTV. The builder had lodged a complaint and submitted a copy of the recording to the police. The Karanjikar gang extorted money mostly from builders in the eastern suburbs. Karanjikar, 45, was killed in an encounter with the Mumbai crime branch officials on January 15. Senior inspector Prakash Landge of the Mulund police said, “More has confessed that he was involved in threatening the Mulund builder last year.”