IN THE second homicide of a minor in a day, a 17-year-old youth was brutally hacked to dying with machetes over a dispute with a rival group that had began throughout Ganesh pageant, police mentioned. Three minors, all 17 years outdated, have been detained.
The incident came about round 11.15 pm on Tuesday in Vadgaon Budruk space on Sinhagad Street. Police recognized the deceased as Shripat Anant Bankar (17), a resident of Vadgaon Budruk. “Preliminary probe suggests the deceased and the three accused had a dispute throughout Ganesh pageant earlier this 12 months. On Tuesday morning the accused accosted the deceased, who was on his bike. They attacked him with machetes a number of occasions and in addition hit him with a rock. They fled the scene leaving him bleeding on the bottom. Some individuals took Bankar to hospital the place he was pronounced useless,” mentioned an officer from Sinhagad Street police station. The accused have been detained and will probably be produced earlier than the Juvenile Justice Board.
The incident got here simply hours after a 17-year-old faculty scholar was hacked to dying in a machete assault by two assailants when he was on his solution to faculty in Ramtekdi space of Pune on Tuesday morning. Police mentioned the assault was the fallout of a previous dispute between the deceased and one of many assailants.
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