Abdul Jabbar Ansari, an accused in the alleged kidnapping of Sadichcha Sane, a third-year MBBS student of JJ Hospital and Grand Medical College, was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Saturday. The main accused, identified as Mittu Sukhdev Singh, was arrested earlier on Friday. Both will remain in police custody till January 21. The case has been unresolved for about 13 months now. 

The medical student has been missing since November 2021 and a case of kidnapping was registered by the Bandra police in December. The case was later transferred to the Crime Branch. “Both the accused men have been arrested based on strong circumstantial evidence against them. We are probing all angles to the crime,” newly appointed joint commissioner of crime, Lakhmi Gautam said. The accused Singh had allegedly taken a selfie with the student, the day she went missing from Bandstand on November 29, 2021.