Footage From 500 CCTV Cams Were Analysed By Police Team
“We tracked monetary transactions of Rs 50,000. On August 1, the crime branch arrested Mohammad Niaz Samsul Ansari and Mohammad Aslam Samsul Ansari with 151gm MD worth ₹30 lakh. Phalli, already named in a December 2025 drug case and a 2023 rape-and-assault case, believed Motghare had tipped off police and decided to take revenge. Phalli roped in Ankush Tomaskar, 30, of Samata Nagar, who fired the shot. Others arrested in the case include Amit Thakre, 22, Romit alias Pullya Vahane, 25, Rishabh Paithal, 30, Ketan Mate, 24; and Kartik Tomaskar, 24. Eight cell phones worth ₹80,000 were seized.
There could be an angle of contract crime and all possibilities, including political rivalry are being explored,” said the CP. He was arrested by the crime branch from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, said police. Nagpur: Eight days after the midnight gunfire at the residence of first-time Congress corporator Subham Motghare at Shravan Nagar in Bhandewadi, the police cracked the case with the arrest of seven accused, including the shooter and biker. However, the mastermind Vishal Gupta alias Phalli, a Wathoda-based narco dealer, remains on the run. Investigators say the attack was a calculated conspiracy. The duo named Phalli as their supplier, making him a co-accused. The crime branch cracked the case after nabbing Mate, an aide of Nagdeve and Karthik. Following their interrogation, it had come to fore that Nagdeve and Romit were holed up at a hotel in Surat.
Talking to reporters on Friday, police commissioner Vishwas Nangre Patil said seven teams were formed with specific tasks.
Sources also said Tomaskar was sentenced in a 2016 murder case. He obtained bail in 2020, but the high court rejected his appeal in March 2026, yet he remained active. Another gambling kingpin with 40 cases is also under scanner for his role in allowing goons to feast at his home.