Obed Radiowala, gangster Ravi Pujari’s aide who is a key accused in the 2014 firings on film-makers Mahesh Bhatt and Karim Morani, was deported to India from the United States (US) on Tuesday. On April 1, a New Jersey immigration court issued an order to deport Radiowala, after which the ICE officials alerted the Indian authorities. Radiowala allegedly gave the contracts to kill Bhatt and Morani from the US, at the behest of Pujari. Last year, the court found 10 men, including Radiowala’s brother Anees, guilty in the Bhatt case and sentenced them to five years imprisonment. In his confession, one of the convicts had said, “On November 14, Hasnat told me that Pujari has given a contract to Anees and Ishrat through their brother Obed Radiowala to fire at Mahesh Bhatt.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2019 19:25 UTC