1992 JJ hospital shootout: Accused arrested after 32 years

In 1992, 2 men Shailesh Haldankar and Bipin Shere were arrested successful an attempted execution lawsuit and were admitted to state-run J J Hospital arsenic they had sustained injuries. On September 12, 1992, chartless assailants entered the infirmary and carried retired a shootout, sidesplitting Haldankar and 2 constabulary constables guarding him. The constabulary had claimed that Haldankar was a subordinate of the Arun Gawli gang. The shootout was a fallout of the execution of Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law, Ismail Parkar, who was allegedly gunned down by Gawli pack members.

Seeking his custody, peculiar nationalist authoritative Sunil Gonsalves submitted that Singh had received slug injuries successful the firing and had subsequently managed to flee. He had archetypal escaped to Surat, got himself operated connected and aboriginal changed his individuality to evade arrest, helium said. The authoritative submitted that the connection of the doc who had treated Singh past was recorded. Singh’s custody was needed to analyse and corroborate the injuries helium suffered past and probe into his mendacious identity, the constabulary said. Previously, 2 others were convicted successful the case, the constabulary told the court.

In 2018, the constabulary had besides arrested absconding accused Mohammed Farooq Yasin Mansoor. He is presently successful custody.