Wastepicker held for friend’s murder in Pune

PUNE: The Bhosari MIDC police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly bludgeoning his friend to death, about 14 days after the victim’s body was found at a garbage dumping ground in Moshi on July 9.
The post-mortem revealed that the man, Vinod Shinde (32), had died of head injuries.
“Initially we could not ascertain the identity of the man. We shared his photographs on different social media platforms but there was no breakthrough,” senior inspector Rajendra Kunte of the Bhosari police told TOI.
Kunte said constables V D Daundkar and N P Pote subsequently traced his address to Gavlimatha in Bhosari.
“Shinde was a wastepicker. His brother told us that Shinde had been missing since July 9 and was last seen with a friend on the same day,” he said.
Shinde’s brother also told the police that the former had entered a brawl with the friend a few days prior.
“We took his 35-year-old friend, Manohar Kamble, into custody for questioning. He admitted to having bludgeoned Shinde to death as they encountered a fallout over picking waste,” Kunte said.