On October 16, 2022, ‘Vastushastra’ advisor Dattatraya Warghade, 43, went lacking quickly after he took a non-public cab to a medical store in Pune’s Narhe Ambegaon space to carry out sure rituals. His household filed a ‘lacking individual’ report with the police and a search was launched.
Warghade’s family advised the investigators that he was final seen with Deepak Jaikumar Narale, 35, the driving force of a non-public cab.
A resident of Higher Indira Nagar in Bibwewadi, Warghade sometimes employed Narale’s cab when he needed to journey to numerous locations to carry out vastu puja. Because the probe progressed, the police zeroed in on Narale as the important thing suspect. Monitoring CCTV footage from a number of places, they quickly nabbed him alongside together with his aide Ranjit Dnyandev Jagdale, 29, on October 22.
The police probe revealed that after Warghade carried out the puja on October 16, Narale provided him a espresso laced with sedatives, attributable to which he misplaced consciousness. Quickly, Jagdale joined him and the 2 allegedly strangled Warghade and packed his physique in a gunny sack, investigators stated, earlier than dumping it within the Neera River that coursed by means of Sarola village within the district’s Bhor taluka.
A First Data Report (FIR) was lodged in opposition to Narale and Jagdale and the 2 have been arrested by the Bibwewadi police. After a rigorous search operation lasting ten days with the assistance of divers, Warghade’s physique was retrieved from the reiver on November 3.
In keeping with the police, Warghade was keen on carrying gold jewelry and on the time he went lacking, he was carrying about 250 grams of ornaments. The probe indicated that Narale and his aide allegedly kidnapped Warghade to rob his jewelry. Officers stated the cab driver had developed pleasant relations with Warghade so the vastu advisor trusted him.
Officers stated that after the homicide, the accused even saved Warghade’s mobile phone on and drove the cab again to his residence. Of their preliminary statements too, the 2 insisted that they’d dropped him dwelling after the rituals.
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A police officer, who was a part of the probe, stated, “After we accomplished the investigation, we filed a chargesheet in opposition to the 2 accused. Our probe additionally established the entire CCTV path of their actions until they dumped the physique. Each accused are at present in judicial custody and are but to get bail.”
