Pappu Savla

MUMBAI: Matka king Pappu Savla has been externed from Mumbai limits in the first such order passed against him by the city police. Savla has been prohibited from entering the city for a period of two years. The order was issued on Wednesday by the office of deputy police commissioner (zone 11) Sangramsinh Nishandar.

Last year, Savla and his associate were arrested by the Mumbai crime branch for demanding Rs 33 crore from a Borivali based developer. Savla’s name had also cropped up in the Thane police’s investigation into an alleged extortion racket run by Iqbal Kaskar, the brother of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim , last year.

The police had arrested Savla’s former aide, Pankaj Gangar, under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act and alleged that he was Kaskar’s chief financier. Gangar is out on bail.

Externment proceedings are a quasi judicial process where a notice is served on a person who is considered a threat to the society. Hearings take place and a final order is eventually passed by the police. “In the past, the police had made attempts to issue externment orders against Savla but it did not work out. This time too, Savla approached the Bombay High Court against the externment proceedings. But the HC struck it down,” said a senior officer.

Savla was also one of the accused in the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandikar in 2006, apart from Gawli. Savla had been booked for financing Gawli but a special court discharged him later. Gawli was convicted for the murder.

