Pune: Three held for robbery bid at DSK project site

PUNE: The Hadapsar police arrested three criminals for attempting to rob steel from DSK Dream City site at Phursungi, off Pune-Solapur highway, after assaulting one of the security guards at the project entrance, at 8.30pm on Tuesday.
The police on Tuesday night arrested Raj Pawar (22), Sanket Gaikwad (22), and Sumit Salve (22), all residents of Kawadipat in Hadapsar. They had cases of body and property offences against them.
In the past three years, five complaints had been lodged in relation to theft of steel, furniture, glass, vehicles, electronic goods and other articles from the DSK Dream City site, the police said.
The Dream City premises has been wearing a deserted look ever since its developer Deepak Sakharam Kulkarni, alias DSK, was arrested in a cheating case that was lodged with the Shivajinagar police.
The assaulted security guard (28), a resident of Hadapsar, had lodged a police complaint soon after the incident. Police registered a case under IPC sections 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
The police said the government agencies, which are probing the DSK cheating case, have hired security guards to protect the property from thieves, as directed by the court.
According to the police, four security guards and their supervisor were on duty when the incident occurred. The arrested men walked into the premises of DSK Dream City when the security guard stopped them. The suspects, who were armed with sharp weapons, assaulted the guard and he fell on the ground. He managed to raise an alarm and the other security guards and the supervisor rushed to the spot.
The police said one of the security guards managed to contact the police. A team of police was sent to the site. The suspects by then had taken shelter in a building. But the police were able to nab them after a search.