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Anti-Corruption Bureau nabs Pune Cantonment Board official taking bribe

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) filed a chargesheet against Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) land acquisition superintendent Nutan Vasudev Kadve in a graft case on Friday.

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    The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) filed a chargesheet against Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) land acquisition superintendent Nutan Vasudev Kadve in a graft case on Friday.

    Kadve was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs4,000 from the complainant, Padmavati Vijaykumar Gujar (42).

    Assistant police commissioner (ACB) Parshuram Patil filed the chargesheet before the court of additional sessions judge JD Kulkarni.

    The prosecution said the accused demanded Rs4,000 from the complainant for transferring land ownership from her father-in-law to her mother-in-law after the former’s demise in 2004.

    But Kadve, the then land acquisition superintendent, demanded money for putting up the application before the PCB meeting. Gujar reported the matter to the ACB and Kadve was arrested.
    3 held for stealing company designs

    The cyber crime cell of Pune arrested a person on Wednesday on Bajirao Road, who allegedly stole patented designs of Lohegaon-based company Air Plasma Cutter and sold them.

    The arrested suspect has been identified as Deepak Narayan Gayake of Chinchwad. The police said company’s managing director Arundhati Thomas had lodged a complaint in this regard at the Bhosari police station on October 28.

    Earlier, the police arrested other two suspects identified as Ashmi Vilas Sarode (30) and Praful Anandrao Kubetkar (37), both are residents of Bhosari.

    As per the complaint, three former employees of the company had allegedly copied some engineering designs. They had also stolen consumables such as an electrode, a nozzle, a front cap and a swirl.

    Acting on a tip-off, Gayke was nabbed on Bajirao Road by a police team led by police inspector Sangeeta Shinde-Alfonso of the cyber cell. A laptop and a pen drive were recovered from his
    possession.

    One more arrested in vehicle theft case
    The Anti-Organised Crime Cell arrested another suspect on Tuesday for stealing 35 four-wheelers worth Rs1.81crore from different states. The police also recovered Rs18 lakh in cash from the suspect.

    He was remanded in police custody till November 22 by a city court. The arrested suspect has been identified as Udaykumar Sarwan Chaudhary of Patna in Bihar.

    According to the police, the suspect worked as the branch manager of Transcity Travel Company in Patna. He used to submit fake documents and get the vehicles registered.

    On September 26 this year the city police had arrested two brothers, Rajesh Kumar Sharma (32) and Vikrant Kumar Sharma (26), both resident of Nagpur, in the same case.

    2 held for cheating students of Rs12 L
    The Bharati Vidyapeeth police arrested two suspects on Thursday on Fergusson College road, who allegedly duped 35 students of around Rs12 lakh on the pretext of giving them jobs with attractive salaries. The suspects have been identified as Victor Sarkar and Vishweshawar Mukhrjee of West Bengal.

    A complaint in this regard was lodged by Sandip Inshwarrao Khalorkar (27) of Kasarwadi.

    The police said the complainant had come to city in search of a job on June 10 this year. On July 30, he approached a Kothrud-based consultancy firm. He got an offer letter from a software company run by the duo at Swargate.

    Senior police inspector Nagnath Wakude of Bharati Vidyapeeth police station said the duo interviewed him. They offered him Rs7,000 during the training period. After completing the training, they would give him Rs15,000 per month as a salary.

    “The duo took Rs30,000 from the complainant as the deposit and appointed him as a dot net developer in their company. But the duo did not give his salary for five months,” the police said.

    The duo was produced before a city court and was granted seven-day police custody till November 25.

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