Pune, Sep 29 (PTI) Police are probing how a Pune-based gangster, Nilesh Ghaywal, managed to obtain a passport despite facing multiple criminal cases of serious nature in the city and travel abroad, an official said on Monday.

A Look Out Circular (LOC) had been issued against Ghaywal, who is believed to be abroad currently, even as he faced fresh criminal charges in a road rage case in which a man was shot at by five to six of his associates in Pune.

"We have already issued an LOC against Ghaywal and now we are probing how he managed to obtain a passport despite having multiple serious criminal cases registered against him (most of them in Pune)," said a senior official from the Pune police.

Sources in police said the gangster may have obtained the key travel document illegally as cops i

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