MBVV Crime Branch Takes Custody of Subhash Singh Thakur in 2022 Virar Builder Murder Case

Overview

• Deputy Commissioner of Police Sandeep Doiphode confirmed that MBVV police took Thakur into custody from Fatehgarh Central Jail in Uttar Pradesh.
• Investigators say builder Samay Chauhan was shot dead on February 26, 2022, in Virar’s Manvelpada in a contract killing linked to a property dispute.
• Police previously arrested 13 accused under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, including alleged shooters and intermediaries.
• A Crime Branch team traveled to Uttar Pradesh to secure the transfer, with Thakur expected to be brought to Vasai/Mumbai on Tuesday.
• Thakur is serving a life sentence in the JJ Hospital shootout case and had long stayed at BHU’s Sir Sunderlal Hospital until his return to prison in 2024, which enabled his custody in the Virar case.