Nagpur: The Nagpur police are preparing to invoke Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOC) against the robbers who had stabbed an 82-year old senior citizen and looted Rs 32 lakh from his house in Sonegaon area. City police crime branch have recovered cash Rs 32 lakh, gold worth Rs 8 lakh and other valuables from the five persons arrested so far in the case.
Among those arrested is Hrishikesh Pendle, who had stabbed the elderly Suresh Potdukhe, who stayed alone at Indraprastha Housing Society in the jurisdiction of Sonegaon police station.
The arrested accused have been identified as Shubham alias Apya Prakash Manke (27), a resident of Rambagh; Nayzar alias Sanitizer Ronald Lorens (19), a resident of Indira Nagar, Imambada; Vinayak Daulatrao Mundafale, (54), a resident of Sarvashri Nagar, Hudkeshwar; Vinod Vitthalrao Sontakke (49), a resident of Plot No. 11, Dussehra Road, Mahal and Hrishikesh Manoj Pendle (20), a resident of Mecosabagh.
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Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said that MCOCA would be invoked against the accused as they have a history of crimes.
Though Potdukhe had earlier claimed to have lost cash around Rs 22 lakh, the cops feel this must have been due to panic and shock of the stabbing and robbery at his house. The Crime Branch, under DCP crime Mummaka Sudarshan had earlier arrested four persons in the case, including Potdukhe’s former driver Vinayak Mudafale and his friend Vinod Sontakke.
The cops had also nabbed hardened burglar Shubham Manke and Niger Lawrence too. The last person to be arrested was Pendle. CP Amitesh Kumar said Manke had around 20 cases against him. “We are contemplating invoking MCOCA in the case,” he said, adding the rest of the accused would also be arrested soon. “We have also invoked the charges of dacoity in the case,” said the top cop, who summoned the Crime Branch teams under senior inspectors Gnyaneshwar Bhedodkar, Shubhangi Deshmukh and others to praise their efforts.
Kumar said the Crime Branch teams had visited several places and used technical and manual intelligence to crack the case. The case is being monitored by DCP crime Mummaka Sudarshan and Zonal DCP Anurag Jain.
The arrests were made by DCP Detection Mumakka Sudarshan, PI Dnyaneshwar Bhedodkar, PI Mahesh Sagde, WPI Shubhangi Deshmukh, APIs Arvind Shinde, Sachin Bhonde, PSI Avinash Jaibhaye, PSI Niranjana Umale, ASI Ravindra Bhoskar and staff including Sunil Thawkar, Baban Raut, Madanlal Meshram, Purushottam Kalmegh, Satish Pande, Tappulal Chute, Santosh Choudhary,Bajrang Junghare, Yuvanand Kadu, Sumeet Gujar, Sharad Chambhare, Nilesh Dhone, Sachin Tumsare, Deepak Chole, Chetan Patil, Swapnil Amrutkar, Narendra Bante, Liladhar Bhendarkar, Satyendra Yadav, Shrikant Marwade and Ajay Shukla under the guidance of CP Amitesh Kumar, and Joint CP Aswati Dorje.
