Pune: The city police with their Solapur rural counterparts intercepted a private bus in Tembhurni of Solapur district and nabbed three men wanted in Sunday afternoon’s billhook attack on an assistant police inspector (API) in Sasanenagar of Hadapsar. Later, two more accomplices were arrested from the city. The police produced Nihalsingh Tak (18) and Rahul Singh Bohra (19), both residents of Tuljabhavani Vashat in Hadapsar, who carried out the attack, and accomplices Amarsingh Tak of Shivajinagar, Anil Bansode and Suraj Bhandari, both of Mohammadwadi, before a magisterial court in Wanowrie, which ordered custodial remand till Sept 4.
API Ratnadip Gaikwad from Wanowrie police was on a patrol when he spotted two parties quarrelling with each other in Sasanenagar on Sunday. When he intervened, Nihalsingh and Rahulsingh, who were accompanying one of the disputing parties, allegedly hit him on the head with a billhook and ran away. Wanowrie police’s senior inspector Sanjay Patange said Nihalsingh and Rahulsingh, who have criminal cases to their name, boarded a bus with Amarsingh to Solapur, and were apprehended at Tembhurni.
Bansode and Bhandari were nabbed later. We also published the following articles recently 5 behind billhook attack on cop nabbed from Tembhurni, Pune The Pune police, in collaboration with Solapur rural police, intercepted a bus in Tembhurni, Solapur, and arrested three men involved in an attack on an assistant police inspector in Hadapsar. Further questioning led to two more arrests, totaling five.
The assailants had been financially aided and were heading to Solapur when apprehended, and are now in custody until Sept 4. 3 teenagers wielding billhooks rob phones of two men The Hadapsar police detained two 16-year-old minors and are searching for a third accomplice for robbing two cellphones worth Rs15,000 using sharp weapons in Phursungi. The teenagers, who were driving a stolen motorcycle and carrying billhooks, targeted and threatened two men early Saturday morning.
A police patrol later apprehended two of the suspects at Shivshakti Chowk. Police nab gang of inter-state thieves The Kasturba Marg Police dismantled an inter-state burglary gang that targeted homes and swiftly left the city. In Borivli, the gang stole a photographers laptop and equipment, leading to a loss of valuable data.
Stolen items worth Rs 11.7 lakh have been recovered, including loot from two burglaries in Borivli and one in Ghatkopars Pant Nagar..
