PUNE: The
Mundhwa police on Tuesday arrested two
college students for brutally attacking a hotelier with a
base ball stick over the issue of not paying ‘vargani’ (voluntary contribution) for the
Ganapati festival. The incident happened outside the victim’s hotel at Jadhav vasthi in Ghorpadi around 1.30pm on Monday.
The hotelier
Narayan Ramayya Yadav (45) from Keshavnagar at Mun dhwa is under treatment at a private hospital in Wanowrie.
The suspects Akshay Pillay (25) and his brother Rohan (23) are members of Surya Raj Ganesh Mandal here. They are first and third year arts students.
Senior inspector Anil Patrudkar incharge of the Mundhwa police station said, “The duo and others had demanded Rs 2,000 vargani from the hotelier ahead of the 10-day festival but, he told them that he would donate money as per his financial capacity. The suspects then left the hotel without collecting money.”
He said,“After the Ganapati visarjan the Pillay’s visited the eatery and called the hotelier outside and Rohan hurled abuses on Yadav and brutally attacked him with a base ball stick while Akshay gave fist blows on his various parts of the body and took to heels.”
The complaint read that Yadav rushed to the nearby Ghorpadi Bazaar police chowkey but the policemen on duty advised him to first seek treatment from the Sassoon general hospital and later lodge an FIR . Yadav then rushed to the hospital but on finding large number of patients standing in que, his health started detoriating. He then called his friend and got himself admitted in a private hospital at Wanowrie area. After his condition improved, Yadav then gave a statement from the hosptial bed that the Pillay’s attacked him over the issue of not paying vargani.
“We have arrested Pillay brothers for the first time. We have charged them for committing an offence under section 324 (voluntarily causing grevious hurt) among other charges of the Indian Penal Code,” Patrudkar added.
