India, Aug. 30 -- In a breakthrough during the ongoing Ganesh festival, the crime branch of the Pimpri-Chinchwad police arrested an active member of the notorious Baba Sheikh gang. The accused - identified as Pavan Devendra Baneti, 24, a resident of Rajiv Gandhi slum, Pimple Gurav, Sangvi - was taken into custody on Thursday.

According to the police, Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissioner Vinay Kumar Choubey initiated strict action against the accused under the arms drive on August 13 ahead of the Ganesh festival. Pimpri-Chinchwad crime branch unit number 4 received a tipoff that a man carrying firearms was about to visit Pimple Nilakh. Acting on the tipoff, a team of the crime branch laid a trap and arrested Baneti, who was found in posse...