PUNE: The Hadapsar police on Monday night registered a murder case after the body of a 45-year-old man from Sadashiv Peth, with marks of injuries, was recovered from a canal in Shinde Vasti.
Assistant inspector Hanumant Gaikwad on Tuesday said, “The identity of the victim was initially unknown. Later, we found a telephone number of an NGO running a rehabilitation centre in Narhe on the victim. A phone call to the centre helped us establish his identity as Rahul Nene. Investigations have revealed that Nene had run away from the centre, where he was undergoing treatment, on March 11.”
He said, “Nene was residing at the centre for the past six years. He had walked out of the centre with his bag on the evening of March 11. His whereabouts were not known since then. The centre officials had not registered a missing person’s complaint with police. The motive behind his murder could not be established immediately. The victim’s brother, Siddharth Nene (39), has registered an FIR.”
When his body was recovered from the canal, marks of serious injuries were found to his face and head, the police said.