Surat: Crime branch sleuths arrested three key accused of Asif Tameta gang on Monday. The accused were produced in a local court on Tuesday and were remanded to police custody till January 9.
Tameta gang was booked on November 27 in crime branch under Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) Act. The gang had individually and jointly executed 36 crimes in the recent past registered in 10 different police stations of the city, Dahej of Bharuch and Naka Hindola police station of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.
With the fresh arrests, police have so far arrested a total 10 gang members in the case.Total 14 members of the Tameta gang were booked by police of whom three were arrested at time of registering the offence.
Police arrested Muzaffarali Saiyed alias Asif Tameta, 39, Samir Shaikh alias Samir Chuha, 28, and Mohammad Aamir Shaikh alias Chota Tiger alias Kaliya. Police was to take their custody from Lajpore Central Jail earlier but were under treatment for Covid-19 at New Civil Hospital. The three accused were lodged in LCJ in a murder case of Dindoli police station.