THE CRIME Department of Pune Metropolis Police, which took over the investigation into the assault on IT engineer and Murlidhar Mohol supporter Devendra Jog, knowledgeable the courtroom on Tuesday that infamous gangster Gajanan Marne (58), alias Gaja Marne, and his henchman Rupesh Marne had instigated the accused assailants to hold out the assault on the sufferer.
The Crime Department of the Pune Metropolis Police on Monday night time took over the probe into the February 19 assault on Jog which passed off at Shiv Jayanti procession at Bhelke Nagar in Kothrud. Police have earlier arrested three assailants Om Dharmajidnyasu (35), Kiran Padwal (31) and Amol Tapkir (35), all alleged members of the infamous gang led by Gajanan Marne.
Jog (33), who required hospitalisation after the assault, mentioned in his criticism that he had gone to Bhelke Nagar space in Kothrud on his two-wheeler on Wednesday. Later, whereas using in the direction of Gujrat Colony, he got here throughout a procession marking the start anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Whereas he was passing by means of the procession, the accused intercepted him and blamed him for dashing into them. They then allegedly brutally began thrashing him. They then dragged him apart and attacked him with a belt, kicking and punching him until he began to bleed profusely.
Gajanan Marne, who was named as an accused and conspirator within the assault, had surrendered earlier than the Kothrud police station on Monday. The stringent Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was invoked in opposition to him within the case and the probe has been handed over to Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime Department) Ganesh Ingale.
On Tuesday, Marne was produced earlier than the courtroom the place the police sought his remand for custodial interrogation and additional probe. The courtroom remanded him to police custody until March 3. Looking for Marne’s custodial remand, the ACP submitted earlier than the courtroom, “The accused (Gajanan Marne) is a infamous prison and has perpetrated the brutal assault on the sufferer at a public place with an intention to homicide him. Accused Gajanan Marne and needed accused Rupesh Marne have instigated the assailants to assault the sufferer by saying ‘Masti aali aahe salyala mara’ (he’s stepping out of line, assault him!). We wish to examine whether or not the sufferer and accused Gajanan Marne had any previous enmity.”
Officers mentioned that the probe was at present underway to arrest Rupesh Marne.
“Accused is a pacesetter of an organised gang and has terrorised individuals at massive. He isn’t cooperating with the probe and is giving evasive solutions,” ACP Ingale submitted earlier than the courtroom.
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Police have carried out searches at 74 places in Pune and Mulshi at places and premises linked to Marne and his gang members. Police have been additionally gathering particulars of the movable and immovable properties of those gangsters and their cell phone name particulars are being investigated. Data is being obtained from the PMC about properties within the identify of those gangsters.
Gangster Gajanan Marne, who has 27 instances registered in opposition to him, had hit headlines in February 2021 when a rally comprising dozens of luxurious automobiles was taken out on the Mumbai Expressway after he was launched from Taloja jail. On the time, Marne was launched from jail after the courtroom had acquitted him and 13 aides over the shortage of proof within the homicide of Santosh Hiraman Gawade alias Pappu, a rival gang member.
The variety of arrests made by Pune police in connection to the controversial freeway rally had crossed 100 on the time that included lots of his gang members and supporters. Near 30 excessive finish automobiles that have been a part of the rally have been additionally seized by Pune police. Because the Maharashtra Police have been criticised over the rally, a number of instances have been slapped in opposition to Gajanan and his aides in Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Raigad and Navi Mumbai jurisdiction.
One offence was additionally registered in opposition to them for spreading social media posts glorifying the gangster, which have been in circulation since his launch from Taloja jail. Marne was out on bail until his arrest on Monday.
