Santosh Jadhav is an Indian sharpshooter and history-sheeter. He is a member of the Arun Gawli gang. He is one of the eight suspected shooters involved in the murder of the Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala.His father died when Jadhav was just 13 years old.Following his fathers death, Santosh, along with his family, moved to Manchar in Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district of Maharashtra and got settled there. An old picture of Santosh Jadhav.Jadhavs mother revealed in an interview that Santosh was a generous child. However, after the death of his father, he fell into a bad company and under their influence, started taking drugs. Her mother tried to alter his company but was unsuccessful.He has around four criminal cases of different natures registered against him at the Manchar police station.In 2019, Jadhav was suspected to be involved in a rape case.In August 2021, he was accused of the murder of the gangster Ranya alias Omkar Bankhileand a case was registered against him for the same in the Manchar police station.He fled the police custody in 2021 and has since been absconding; Apparently, he left Manchar and moved to Rajasthan when his name surfaced in the Omkar Bankhile murder case. He then went into hiding in Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab from where he carried out his operations.He has two more cases pending against him in the Manchar police station, including that of obtaining ransom and a case of theft.The Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala was gunned down on 29 May 2022 at around 5:30 pm in Jawaharke village in the Mansa district of Punjab. Apparently, the shooters fired 40 at Moosewala, and around 7 bullets hit him directly. He passed away within 15 minutes of being shot and there were around 19 wounds on his body. Moosewala was travelling in his Thar jeep along with his friend and cousin when he was attacked by the shooters who were boarding a white Bolero and a dark grey Scorpio.