Pune: Seven held for man’s murder over his social media ‘status’

PUNE: A recent brawl over a status update on a social media platform led to the brutal murder of a 22-year-old man at Takve budruk in Vadgaon Maval,around 50km from here, late on Friday night .
The Vadgaon Maval police team, led by inspector Suresh Nimbalkar, arrested seven suspects for the murder of Yash Aswale.
Nimbalkar said Aswale, along with his two friends, had gone for a walk towards Ghonshet village around 10.30pm on Friday.
“The suspects reached there on four motorcycles,” the officer said.
“Four of them had sharp weapons with them,” Nimbalkar added.
“The four persons assaulted Aswale while three others caught hold of Aswale’s two friends,” the inspector added.
He said the police personnel had received a tip-off that Hritik Aswale along with his accomplices were involved in the murder.
“We traced them to their hideout and arrested them,” Nimbalkar said.
“We found that Aswale had entered into a brawl with Hritik Aswale from the same village over the status that he had uploaded,” Nimbalkar said.
“A police complaint had been filed after the brawl,” Nimbalkar added.