Nagpur: Rivalry among the splinter gangs of ‘Beats Group’ in east Nagpur led to a double murder, raising questions about the efficiency of the clamp down on goons by the police in the city.
Rural police managed to detect the case within six hours by arresting three, including mastermind Jageshwar Dudhankar alias Balu, who had two cases of murder in the past and several ones of assault against him.
Bodies of Krunal Charde and Sushil Bawane bearing several stab wounds were found in Dongargaon near the Kuhi-Pachgaon road. Charde and Bawane, also having crime records, were close to Dilip Thaokar who is now lodged in Nagpur central jail for his alleged involvement in the murder of dreaded goon Viju Mohod last year. Dudhankar was close to Mohod. Thaokar, too, was part of the ‘Beats Group’ before he drifted away along with some of his close aides like Charde and Bawane.
Following Mohod’s murder, rivalries among the splinter gangs of the ‘Beats Group’ intensified. With Mohod eliminated and Swapnil on the run after the proposal of MPDA had been prepared against him and many like Thaokar in jail, Dudhankar had been trying to raise his head in east Nagpur. He had become the target of Thaokar’s close associates like Charde and Bawane.
It’s learnt that Charde and Bawane had a tiff with Dudhankar earlier in the day at Dighori naka. They came face-to-face again later in the day when Dudhankar had lured them to sit in his car and go elsewhere to settle scores over a liquor party. Dudhankar and his accomplices, Rahul Lambat and Nishnt Shahkar, then took the victims near Pachgaon and attacked them with a knife. Police said the weapon belonged to the victims.
The local crime branch (LCB) team of Nagpur rural under SP Rakesh Ola managed to nab Dudhankar and two others shortly. Sub-inspectors Sachin Matte, Narendra Gourkhede and Javed Shaikh (cyber) had led the LCB team.