Pune police have arrested a shooter who was wanted over the murder case of Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala, and his aide in connection with a 2021 murder in the Maharashtra district.

Those arrested have been identified as shooter Santosh Jadhav and his aide Navnath Suryavanshi, who is being treated as a suspect, an official said on Monday.

Jadhav, 24, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and Suryavanshi, 27, were arrested on Sunday from the Mandavi tehsil of Bhuj in Gujarat by a team of Pune rural police, additional director-general (law and order) Kulwant Singh Sarangal told a news conference in Pune.

The officer said Jadhav, who was on the run for a year, had shaved his head and changed his appearance to evade arrest.

The Pune rural police team had also gone to Delhi to interrogate Bishnoi, who is in the Delhi police special cell’s custody and is said to have masterminded Moosewala’s murder, Sarangal said.

The names of Jadhav and Suryavanshi had cropped up in the Moosewala murder probe. Multiple police teams, including from Delhi and Punjab, were looking for them.

The Pune rural police had also intensified their search and last week arrested Siddhesh Kamble alias Mahakal, accused of sheltering Jadhav after the 2021 murder.

They had sent multiple teams to Gujarat and Rajasthan last week to trace Jadhav.

“We apprehended Jadhav and Suryavanshi after receiving information from Mahakal,” Sarangal said.

He said all three are associated with the Bishnoi gang and are suspected to have a role in the Moosewala murder case.