The crime branch of the Mumbai police on Monday arrested one more person for allegedly threatening a witness in the Neeraj Grover murder case. Neeraj Grover, the creative head of a TV production house, was killed here on May 7 last year.
The accused, identified as 38-year-old Munshi Yadav, was nabbed from an online lottery centre in Goregaon, by a team of Unit 11, led by inspector Milind Khetle. The police had earlier arrested Yadav’s associate, Raju Wankhede, 37, a real estate agent on the same charges.
“Yadav frequently visited the lottery centre where he met Wankhede. After being arrested, he was produced before the court and has been remanded in police custody till September 14,” said joint police commissioner (crime) Rakesh Maria said.
On September 5, Yadav and Wankhede had gone to witness Usha Ramalu’s residence and told her not to depose against actor Maria Susairaj, the prime accused in the murder case. Ramalu soon lodged a complaint with the Goregaon police, after which Wankhede was arrested the same day. However, Yadav is still at large.
“The witness also said she was made to speak to Raja Thakur, the actress’s lawyer, on phone,” Maria said. The police will now examine the phone call details of the accused to establish whether Thakur had any conversation with Ramalu.
Susairaj’s lawyers Sudeep Pasbola and Acharya Murthy withdrew from the case on Monday following allegations that they threatened the witness to not testify in the case, saying they were “disturbed”.
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