Updated on Thursday, July 02, 2009, 22:24 IST

Mumbai, July 02: Congress corporator Deepak Mankar was on Thursday arrested by Pune crime branch in a land grab case.

The case pertains to grabbing of land belonging to a co-operative bank in Pune registered with Vishrambag police station there, sources said.

Mankar will be taken to Pune and will be produced in court there tomorrow.

Mankar has filed anticipatory bail application in High Court in connection with another case. Police had started probing allegations that he threatened Yashwant Natu, a retired college professor, and pressurised him to sell their family property in Pune.

Justice D B Bhosale of the High Court today said that he won't hear the application and allowed Mankar to move another judge.

But as Mankar stepped out of the court, Pune police arrested him.

Bureau Report