Rajan aide big catch for Mumbai Police

The arrest of gangster Nilesh Dinkar Paradkar alias Shatlya, a close aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, is being seen as a big catch for the police as he was handling the gang’s activities in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.

Shatlya was arrested from his residence in Tilak Nagar on Tuesday in an extortion case, involving a builder, in which Rajan and his another associate Raghu Shetty are also wanted.

According to the police, Shatlya is a big catch for them as he used to handle Mumbai and Navi Mumbai operations of the Rajan gang. He was heading the octroi mafia at Mulund, Thane and Navi Mumbai. 

This had led to rivalry between Shatlya and the erstwhile octroi mafia men like Paresh Nanda, Shiva Gaikwad and Kiran Pujari, informed sources in the police said.

Early this year, Shatlya allegedly threatened a prominent Mumbai NCP leader. On September 23 2012, Shatlya was arrested from Tilak Nagar, part of Rajan’s home turf Chembur, by Thane Crime Branch for allegedly masterminding the shootout on Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Ghadge on July 13 the same year, police said.

He was booked under the MCOCA, said police, adding he was released on bail after a year. After the killing of Rajan’s sharp-shooter Farid Tanasha in his home at Tilak Nagar on June 2, 2010, Shatlya emerged as the ‘right-hand man’ of Rajan.