Hours after they invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against history-sheeter Gajanan Marne and his gang members, Pune Police have now arrested gangster Gajanan Marne.

The city police were receiving flak for the rising organised crime and the recent attack on Devendra Jog, a 33-year-old man working at the office of Union Minister and Pune MP Murlidhar Mohol, by members of the Marne gang in the Kothrud area on Friday.

Who Is Gajanan Marne?

Marne, a dreaded gangster from Karve Nagar, is known to be a rival of Sharad Mohol.

Once associated with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), he faced expulsion due to widespread criticism earlier. He is known for multiple criminal cases, including serious offenses like murder.

Last year, NCP President and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar sparked a controversy after he visited the home of the history-sheeter, Gajanan Marne, also known as Gajya Marne.

Later in the year, a video emerged on social media showing Marne felicitating NCP (SP) Nilesh Lanke at his Pune home. He was also seen felicitating BJP's Chandraakant Patil at a function.

In 2021, Marne was booked in two different cases by Pune city police and Pimpri-Chinchwad police for taking out a vehicle procession from Taloja Jail to Pune after being released from Taloja Jail.

A court had acquitted him in a 2014 murder case, and he was released from jail after almost six years. His supporters gathered in large numbers outside the jail and took out a 300-vehicle procession from Navi Mumbai to Pune, burst crackers, and used drones illegally to shoot the whole scene, after which the police booked him in two different cases.