The accused have been identified as Sameer Mubarak Maniyar, 35, of Salunke Vihar and Nitin Madhav Wahalkar, 47, of Dattawadi.
The Khadki police on Tuesday arrested two history-sheeters allegedly involved in a fake franking (prepaid stamps) fraud.
The accused have been identified as Sameer Mubarak Maniyar, 35, of Salunke Vihar and Nitin Madhav Wahalkar, 47, of Dattawadi. They were produced before the court on Wednesday and were remanded in police custody till January 10.
There are 31 cases against Wahalkar for using fake franking machines to make stamp papers while six cases have been registered against Maniyar for the same offence. Assistant sub-registrar of Haveli Sanjay Bhimgaunda Patil, 42, had lodged a complaint against the duo with the Khadki police station.
The police said the suspects wanted to get loans by making bogus property documents using fake franking machines. The police have found that the duo is also involved in crime of cheating and forgery registered by Patil on October 30, last year.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by assistant police inspector Shreeram Pol laid a trap near the sub-registrar’s office number 19 on Aundh Road and arrested the duo. They had gone to the sub-registrar’s office for submitting the fake documents for registration.
According to the police, the duo had told them that on October 30 last year, they prepared property agreements of Rs100 denominations worth Rs57,800 between one Sunil Kunjir and Vaibhav Srishti Developers and submitted them to the WMDC for obtaining loans. They wanted to see whether the officials could differentiate between original and fake franking documents.
However, the officials at WMDC suspected the documents and called the office which had issued the franking documents to verify them regarding franking number and code number mentioned on those documents. Suspecting trouble the suspects immediately fled from the scene. The police have seized fake property agreement from Vaibhav Srishti Developers, rubber stamps of sub-registrar offices numbers 6, 7, 8, 14 and 19 in the city, blank franking papers, rubber stamps of WMDC, Shivajinagar, Jijamata Mahila Sahkari Bank, Jagdamba construction, Siddheshwar Co-operative housing society, total worth Rs2 lakh.
Woman ends life over dowry harassment
A 31-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at her residence in Ajmera society in Pimpri on December 28 after being harassed for dowry by her in-laws.
Seema Khanderao Subedar, who got married to Khanderao Shankar Subedar in May 2010, ended her life on December 28, 2010 after a dispute with her husband and in-laws. Later, she was rushed to a private hospital but died on Tuesday.
The deceased’s brother Chidanbar Krushnarao Kulkarni, 26, of Bijapur, Karnataka, registered a complaint against Seema’s husband and in-laws at the Pimpri police station. The police have detained Seema’s husband Khanderao, mother-in-law Sumbai Shankar Subedar and brother-in-law Laxmikant Shankar Subedar.
Two brothers get five years RI for homicide
The court of additional sessions judge, SN Sardesai, on Wednesday sentenced two brothers to five years of rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder of a snacks vendor. The additional public prosecutor, Heera Bari, said Anil Prakash Jagtap, 30, and his younger brother Sunil, 25, assaulted Babasaheb Choudhari, 37, on September 24, 2008.
Anil had an illicit affair with Babasaheb’s wife, a snacks vendor at Begdewadi railway station. Irked by objections from Babasaheb, the brothers assaulted him. The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he died the next day. The police registered a complaint against the duo under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The court also fined the brothers Rs1,000 each.
ATS nabs three with firearms
The Pune unit of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday arrested three persons for illegal possession of three countrymade pistols and three live cartridges. The cost of each pistol is around Rs40,000.
The suspects have been identified as Imran Hamid Shaikh, 22, of Kondhwa Khurd, Ramjan Mehboob Shaikh, 27, of Dhankavdi and Mangesh Raghunath Tawre, 27, of Market Yard.
All the three suspects were arrested by the ATS Pune near Mithanagar Petrol Pump. They also seized Rs55,000 cash from Imran. The suspects were remanded in magisterial custody on Wednesday.
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