Overview
- Surendra Pandurang Patil, 55, was arrested after a Saturday night raid at his Dawdi, Dombivli home where officers found a hidden compartment behind a fake shoe‑rack panel.
- Police initially reported seizing seven firearms, 371 live cartridges, 167 air‑gun pellets and several bladed weapons valued at about ₹10 lakh.
- In a Thursday briefing, the crime branch said they also recovered ₹3.52 lakh in counterfeit notes and counted 405 cartridges, figures that differ from earlier accounts.
- Patil is a builder with more than 300,000 Instagram followers, had been out on bail in another case, and previously drew scrutiny for filming himself with a service weapon inside a police station.
- Investigators say the volume of ammunition points to a functioning cache and have filed new cases under the Arms Act and the Maharashtra Police Act while probing the source and any links to local criminals.