Pujari moves HC for transfer to Belagavi jail

Nagpur: Gangster Jayesh Pujari, who had made multiple extortion calls to Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s office in January, approached the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court praying for his transfer back to Belagavi’s Hindalga prison in Karnataka from the central jail here.
Through counsel Nitish Samundre, Pujari contended that his family members stayed at Belagavi, and even the criminal trials against him were pending at the JMFC court there.
The vacation judge Govinda Sanap on Tuesday issued notices to the respondents including the Maharashtra government asking them to reply within two weeks. The city police had earlier sought his custody on March 29 after he made calls for extorting ₹100 crore to the minister’s office.
Facing the murder charges, Pujari was awarded life imprisonment and is also involved in two more criminal cases. TNN