The Swargate police arrested an autorickshaw driver for allegedly snatching the chain of an elderly woman at Sadashiv Peth on April 11.
The Swargate police arrested an autorickshaw driver for allegedly snatching the chain of an elderly woman at Sadashiv Peth on April 11.
The arrested driver has been identified as Akhtar alias Munna Anwar Khan, 24, a resident of Manjari Road. The arrest assumes significance in the light of the spate of chain snatching incidents in the city in the last few weeks. The special squad formed by crime branch of Pune police is yet to achieve any breakthrough in the chain snatching cases in the city.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by inspector SN Kamble arrested Khan on Friday. He was produced before the court on Saturday and remanded in police custody till Monday.
A complaint was lodged by Uttam Narayan Borate, 60, a trader, at Sadashiv Peth at the Swargate police station. According to the police, Borate and his wife were walking towards Sarasbaug around 6.30pm on April 11. Khan and his accomplice came from behind on a motorcycle and blocked their path. The duo asked the elderly couple for an address and snatched the gold chain worth Rs1.6 lakh from Borate’s wife and fled from the spot.
Inspector Kamble said, “Khan is an autorickshaw driver and we are yet to recover the chain from him. Moreover, we are on a lookout for his accomplice and probing that whether he has committed more crimes in the past in the city."
Two held for duping SBI of Rs53.04 lakh
The Pune police crime branch arrested a two-member gang on Friday for allegedly duping the State Bank of India (SBI) to the tune of Rs53.04 lakh.
The two suspects had cheated the bank by procuring home loans by producing bogus documents featuring the Vaishnavi Promoters and Developers of the Chikhali area.
Devendra Radhakisan Botre, 50, SBI’s Vimannagar branch manager, had lodged a complaint in this regard with the Airport police station.
A team led by inspector Mohan Vidhate of crime branch unit III arrested Ravindra Dhondiram Rathod, 24, alias Laxman Shankar Chavan of Nigdi Pradhikaran and Shankar Desu Chavan, 28, alias Amol Sadashiv Bhosale of Chinchwad. Their accomplice Vijay Ranse alias Ajay Ramesh Kamble of Bhosari and others are stated to be absconding. According to the complaint, the incident took place between May 2010 and April this year. The suspects had allegedly prepared bogus documents for purchasing three flats in a residential project, Sahil Srishti in Chikhali.
They also made fake registration documents with stamps of the joint sub-registrar’s office in Bhosari and obtained the DDs from SBI’s Vimannagar branch.
Rathod got the DD of Rs18.5 lakh, Chavan of Rs15.36 lakh and Ranse of Rs17.62 lakh, all issued in the name of the construction firm. However, the suspects didn’t submit the DDs to the builder.
The suspects had allegedly opened a bogus account in the name of the construction firm with Sambhajinagar branch of Seva Vikas Co-operative Bank and deposited the DDs there and later withdrew the amount.
Govt employee gets one-year RI
Special judge SN Sardesai on Saturday sentenced a government employee, Bhiwaji Baburao Pawar, 57, to one-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) for possessing assets worth Rs41 lakh, which were disproportionate to his income.
Pawar, an employee of the Employee Provident Fund, was fined an additional Rs50,000 under the relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Pawar, a resident of Ganganagar in Nigdi, had been arrested by the anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation, (CBI) on February 1, 2005.
Superintendent of police Kiran Jadhav had filed the first information report (FIR) and inspector A Shrinivasrao was investigating the case.
Judge Sardesai in his order stated that the failure to pay the Rs50,000 fine would result in another six months RI for Pawar. The judge said that the assets worth Rs41,10,023 would be confiscated by the state after the appeal period was over.
According to the prosecution, Pawar was deployed as a lower division clerk attached to the enforcement office from May 1979. Later in 1992, he began working with the Employee Provident Fund.
When the CBI ACB raided Pawar’s house, they found Rs10 lakh cash from his room, Rs2.19 lakh from his locker and some 32 LIC policies, various shares and provident fund documents. Special public prosecutor Anil S Kankariya examined two prosecution witnesses to prove Pawar guilty.
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