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Twelve gang members were arrested on November 17, 2015. more-inThe special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Wednesday convicted 10 members of gangster Ravi Pujari’s gang, and sent them to prison for five years for threatening to kill producer-director Mahesh Bhatt and his family. Of them, Ishrat Shaikh, Mohammed Hakikulla Khan, Azim Khan, Ashfaq Abdul Rashid, Asif Sattar Khan, Shahatwal Shaik, Feroz Sayyed, Shabbir Shaikh, Rahim Khan, and Mohammed Anees Merchant have been convicted. On November 27, 2014, the MCOCA was invoked against the accused. Mr.
Bhatt on October 5, 2017, had deposed before special judge Shridhar Bhosale, and said he had been receiving threatening calls from the gang and some of the members were also involved in a firing outside the residences of Bollywood producers Karim and Ali Morani in 2014..