After firing gun photographs, a chase within the mid–night time hours and evaluation of a couple of hundred CCTV visuals, the Pune metropolis police Sunday claimed to have busted a gang of thieves who tried to steal sandalwood timber in Erandwane on October 22.
Police mentioned they arrested one Asif Harunkhan Golwal (24) of Janjal village in Sillod taluka of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district on October 25, whereas search is on for his 5 accomplices, together with the 2 who obtained bullet accidents throughout the incident of firing earlier this week.
In accordance with police, a gang of thieves entered the open premises round an previous closed bungalow on the Abhinav College Street in Erandwane round 2.30 am on October 22.
Two constables from Deccan Gymkhana police station Mahesh Tambe and Ganesh Satav, who have been on night time patrolling, noticed them transferring suspiciously.
When the 2 have been questioning the suspects, they allegedly attacked the constables with sharp weapons.
Tambe sustained damage on his hand within the incident. Because the suspects began fleeing on their bikes, Tambe opened fireplace at their legs and bike wheels along with his service pistol in an try to cease them. However the gang managed to flee.
An FIR was registered in opposition to them on the Deccan police station beneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 310, (1), 121(1) , 132 and sections of the Indian Arms Act, acknowledged a press launch issued by senior police inspector Girisha Nimbalkar.
A police staff comprising inspector Nimbalkar, sub inspector Mahesh Bhosale, Ajay Bhosale, Dattatraya Sawant launched a seek for the accused. Crime department staff led by inspector Shabbir Pathan additionally joined the probe.
“Throughout investigation, police checked a couple of hundred movies captured by CCTV cameras at totally different places. A technical investigation of cell phone knowledge was carried out. Info was gathered by our informers. Probe by the detection department of Deccan police station and crime department officers revealed the involvement of a gang of sandalwood thieves from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district. Our staff then nabbed an accused Asif Golwal,” mentioned Deputy Commissioner of Police (zone 1) Sandip Singh Gill, throughout a press convention Sunday.
Investigation confirmed that Asif’s aides Shahrukh Kadirkhan Pathan and Farukh Khan Kadirkhan Pathan had acquired bullet accidents throughout the firing on October 22, the press launch acknowledged.
Police mentioned each the injured accused took therapy, however later went into hiding together with three extra accomplices recognized as Nadimkhan Latifkhan, Ferozkhan Sharifkhan and Najim Khan Sadukhan.
Police mentioned that accused are identified to have dedicated extra offences and so there’s a risk of invoking the stringent Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in opposition to the gang of sandalwood thieves throughout the additional plan of action.
Police are additionally probing whether or not the accused have hyperlinks with the bigger sandalwood racket.
Police mentioned an investigation is on to know whether or not six accused individuals have been both immediately concerned or involved with the individuals who dedicated a number of sandalwood thefts not too long ago within the Pune metropolis, together with three within the jurisdiction of the Deccan police station.
A sandalwood tree price Rs 40,000 was stolen from the premises of the Shivrai bungalow on the Shirole street round 4.30 am on October 2.
On October 6, unidentified individuals dedicated a theft of sandalwood log estimated at Rs 25,000 from the Chhaya society on the Regulation School Street round 2.30 am.
Within the early hours of August 11, a gang of about eight individuals uprooted and stole a 70-year-old sandalwood tree from the premises of a bungalow in Bharati Nivas colony, Erandwane, in Prabhat street space.
The FIRs over three incidents have been lodged on the Deccan police station.
