Overview
- A sessions court on January 19 issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant against Kumar Pillai, with Additional Sessions Judge R B Rote granting the request.
- The Anti-Extortion Cell plans to move a formal proposal to Singapore authorities to arrest Pillai in the Vikhroli case for further investigation.
- Case records show Pillai is listed as an absconding accused in the 2007 shooting that killed Sunil Magade and targeted Shashank Ahire.
- Three alleged associates were acquitted in 2017, but the court record continued to show Pillai as a wanted accused in the same case.
- Pillai was extradited from Singapore in 2016 for three separate cases and was acquitted in 2020, 2022 and on March 20, 2024, while his plea seeking repatriation to Hong Kong remains pending.