Notorious gangster Ilyas Abdul Aziz Khan alias Ilyas Bachkana, who was absconding for the past year, has been apprehended by the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of Mumbai Crime Branch from Bengaluru on Sunday. CIU made the arrest based on specific input that he was going to bet on bike and car racing in Bengaluru. Bachkana has 37 criminal cases registered against him which includes murder, attempt to murder, extortion, dacoity and supari killings etc.

CIU was keeping a tab on the gangster since July last year after an attempt to murder case was registered against him, but he managed to evade cops. “In a bid to not leave any trace, he used to change his mobile phone, used virtual private networks and also carried a dongle so that he could put the phone on flight mode and still access the internet,” said an officer privy to the investigation.