Top Dawood shooter arrested in Goa

TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Dreaded underworld shooter  Shyam Kishor Garikapatti aka Black Scorpion, was arrested with a 9mm pistol and a number of forged IDs from his rented premises at Saligao on Saturday. Goa Police who made the arrest said he has been involved in many high-profile shootings, including the notorious JJ shoot out.
Police say that Garikapatti, a member of the Dawood gang and a convicted criminal wanted by the Maharashtra Police in a murder case after he jumped bail, was also involved in the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
He had been living in Saligao under the name of Gopal Rai and in the same place for the past eight years.
The arrest comes on the heels of arrests or information of other high profile criminals and terrorists like Batlo, Yashin Bhatkal, David Headley and even Naxalites living or visiting the state, mostly undetected.  
“We have arrested gangster Shyam Kishore Garikapatti, member of the Dawood gang and now with the Subash Thakur gang. He had taken a house on rent on the CHOGM road at Saligao. A 9 mm pistol and forged documents were picked up from him,” DIG crime V Ranganathan, flanked by SPs Priyanka and Kartik Kashyap, said.
“A case has been registered and a remand for three days obtained. During interrogation he admitted of his involvement in 14 cases. He had jumped bail and was hiding here,” he added.
“Through this case we have come to know that criminals have come to Goa under camouflaged names and live here,” the DIG said, and appealed to home owners to inform police about their tenants.
Asked whether Garikapatti could be involved in crimes like extortion in the state, given that there have been instances of Mumbai-based builders buying properties in Goa and bullying locals using money and muscle power, he said that angle was being investigated.
Garikapatti, originally from Pune and said to have been associated with the D-gang for the last two decades, had been earlier jailed under the draconian TADA, with the court finding him “sufficiently implicated” according to the police, in the Maruthi Jadhav case to label him a level “A” terrorist.
He had jumped parole in 2003 and had been on the run since then, SP crime, Kartik Kashyap told media. He was also allegedly involved in the attack on residents of Vadrai coastal village in Maharashtra on April 30, 1991, and several other murder cases, the SP said.
According to sources, Garikapatti claimed to be married some three years ago and had ‘documents’ saying that he was in a marketing business.