NCP corporator injured in attack near Turf Club
TNN | Updated: Feb 7, 2019, 10:43 IST
Representative imagePUNE: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator Abdul Gafur Pathan was injured after he was attacked by four men in front of RWITC Turf Club on Tuesday night.
Pathan, who claimed that he suffered injuries on his face, ear and head and suffered two broken teeth, said the assailants had threatened him at gunpoint. However, Wanowrie police senior inspector Sayaji Gawanre said Pathan had not made any reference to such threat in his FIR.
Police have registered a case for offences punishable under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (causing insult), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Pathan told TOI, “One of the suspects is associated with my brother in the real estate business. A monetary dispute had arisen between the two as the business was going through a bad patch. The suspect wanted me to intervene in the matter and nursed a grudge as I did not intervene. This may have led him to hire others to attack me.”
Pathan, who represents Kondhwa Khurd in the Pune Municipal Corporation, had gone to the Turf Club to attend an engagement ceremony on Tuesday night. While he was walking towards the parking area around 11.30pm, he received a call from an unknown number.
The caller spoke to him in a rough tone and asked him to come out of the club. When he emerged from the club, four men assaulted him and threatened him with dire consequences.
Pathan, who claimed that he suffered injuries on his face, ear and head and suffered two broken teeth, said the assailants had threatened him at gunpoint. However, Wanowrie police senior inspector Sayaji Gawanre said Pathan had not made any reference to such threat in his FIR.
Police have registered a case for offences punishable under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (causing insult), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Pathan told TOI, “One of the suspects is associated with my brother in the real estate business. A monetary dispute had arisen between the two as the business was going through a bad patch. The suspect wanted me to intervene in the matter and nursed a grudge as I did not intervene. This may have led him to hire others to attack me.”
Pathan, who represents Kondhwa Khurd in the Pune Municipal Corporation, had gone to the Turf Club to attend an engagement ceremony on Tuesday night. While he was walking towards the parking area around 11.30pm, he received a call from an unknown number.
The caller spoke to him in a rough tone and asked him to come out of the club. When he emerged from the club, four men assaulted him and threatened him with dire consequences.
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