Four held for electrician’s murder in Pune

PUNE: The crime branch of the city police on Monday arrested four men on the charge of bludgeoning an electrician to death over a financial dispute.
The incident occurred near the Manjari Khurd crematorium on Sunday night.
The body of the victim 32 year old Vikas Sonawane was recovered around 11.30pm on Sunday after which the Lonikand police started their investigation.
“We were conducting a parallel investigation in the murder case, when our team received reliable information that the four suspects were travelling in a car to Kesanand village,” crime branch (Unit VI) senior inspector Ganesh Mane stated in a release.
Mane said they conducted searches and traced the car to Lonikand. “We signalled the driver to stop. When the vehicle stopped, however, the suspects jumped out and fled in different directions,” he said.
Mane said they chased down the four men and caught them. “We transferred their custody to the Lonikand police,” he added.
On the murder motive, senior inspector Gajanan Pawar of the Lonikand police said, “The suspects killed Sonawane because he had intervened in a financial dispute involving his friend, which had been on for a few months.”
The victim’s friend, Mauli Murkute (35), lodged a complaint and police registered a case of rioting and murder under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Arms Act and Maharashtra Police Act.