According to the crime branch sources, if the information is found to be true, they will be handing over all case related details of Pillai to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) so that the agency can coordinate with the Interpol for Pillai's extradition.
Unconfirmed reports on Friday suggested that gangster Kumar Pillai has been detained in Singapore by the authorities there. The Mumbai crime branch sleuths were still in the process of checking the information through their sources at the time of going to press.
According to the crime branch sources, if the information is found to be true, they will be handing over all case related details of Pillai to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) so that the agency can coordinate with the Interpol for Pillai's extradition.
Pillai, 48, has around a dozen criminal cases, ranging from extortion to threatening, registered against him with Mumbai police. His gang was instrumental in extorting businessmen and builders in eastern suburbs of Mumbai. Recently, Pillai had also issued a threat to a political leader in Mumbai, sources said.
The gangster's father, Krushna Pillai, a resident of Bhandup and involved in smuggling activities at the Bhandup creek, was killed by Dawood's man Suhas Makdawala, allegedly at the behest of the then MLA, Lal Singh Chavan and to avenge his father's murder Pillai took to crime.
Pillai, who did chemical engineering, as a youngster got in touch with Ashwin Naik who was also an engineer and joined the Amar Naik gang in late eighties. He had contacts in southern India and specialised into weapon dealings and narcotics smuggling for the gang.
It was in early nineties, after the death of Amar Naik and arrest of Ashwin Naik, that the gang started declining. Pillai allegedly fled to a South East Asian country and then started creating his own gang in mid-nineties.
After the redevelopment activities in Vikhroli, Bhandup and Kanjurmarg brought about a real estate boom, Pillai was accused of extorting money from the builders involved in constructions in these areas.
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