India, Dec. 22 -- Mumbai gangster Subhash Singh Thakur alias Chacha, who was arrested last Wednesday by the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar Crime Branch for the 2022 daylight killing of a property developer in Virar East, accepted the Rs.50-lakh contract, of which only Rs.8 lakh was paid to arrange for sharpshooters to carry out the murder, police officials said.

The 74-year-old gangster was remanded by the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Thane to police custody till December 22. In their remand application, the police claimed that Thakur was the mastermind behind the murder of a local builder, Vishwajit alias Samay Singh Chauhan, in Manvelpada in Virar East. Chauhan was shot dead on a street by two bike-borne assa...