Crime

Two groups allegedly got into a violent street fight in Bhekrainagar, Pune, and a video of it has gone viral on social media.

The video shows men kicking and assaulting each other. It has raised concerns over public safety and law and order.

Three minors allegedly launched a life-threatening koyta attack on a 26-year-old on the road in Tinhewadi, Khed, on Tuesday, 10 November, at about 2:45 pm, while he was riding a two-wheeler.

A 48-year-old man at Hinjawadi’s Blue Ridge Society was left with a dislocated shoulder after the accused allegedly assaulted him over a previous complaint.

The residents’ dispute turned violent, and the accused also allegedly threatened his wife and children.

Hinjawadi Police have registered a case and are investigating.

Chaturshringi Police have booked the wife and sister-in-law of a 30-year-old man, who was found dead at his residence in Panch Pandav Society, Janwadi, on November 4, on charges of allegedly abetting his suicide.

Around 1.30 am on 9 November, a 21-year-old woman was struck on the head with a sickle near Hope Hospital at Patra Chawl in Nana Peth while trying to save her father in a firecracker dispute.

Rahul Kalbhor, a former Loni Kalbhor sarpanch, is among four booked for allegedly assaulting a hotel owner, staff and a customer at Jagdamba Hotel in Kadamwakvasti on Monday night, 9 November.

The husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law of a woman have had their custody extended in a Pune suicide case.

Of 50 tolas of gold, 35 have been seized, and the remaining 15 tolas are yet to be recovered.

Two bikers stopped an ST bus on the Pune–Nashik highway at Chakan by putting their two-wheeler across its path, and brutally beat the driver.

The bus was travelling from Pune towards Nashik. Passengers on board repeatedly pleaded with the two young men, but the two did not stop the beating.

The attack, in the middle of the highway, left passengers frightened and has again raised the question of ST drivers’ safety.

A retired senior citizen in Pune has gone to the cybercrime cell and Chaturshringi police after his four-BHK flat in Model Colony was advertised online for Rs 5 crore, though he had no plans to sell it and had authorised no one to advertise it.

Six men allegedly assaulted a man after a dispute over spitting on a public road, and Dighi police registered a case against them on Sunday.

A Pune city police constable allegedly rammed his car into the main gate of Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar’s official residence on Tuesday evening, 3 November, in an attempt to force his way in, the city police said.

Infratech owner Kisan Dhavji Rathod and 12 others have been booked by Bharati Vidyapeeth police in a cheating case over flats and open plots offered at low prices in a ‘Katraj Valley’ housing project; police say 51 people allegedly lost ₹89,07,000.