Four held for robbing pedestrian of Rs 50,000 in Pune

PUNE: Four men have been arrested on the charge of robbing a pedestrian of Rs 50,000 around 12.30pm on Friday in the Sadashiv Peth area.
A Vishrambaug police officer on Saturday said Prakash Baburao Upalkar (59) was walking home with a bag containing cash. The four men approached him, snatched his bag and fled. Assistant inspector Tukaram Nimbalkar and a team from the Vishrambaug police station studied the CCTV footage of the area and found the four men in the vicinity.
The police identified the four men as Ali Ajgar Iqbal Naje (38), Yasin Imam Shaikh (24), Ravindra Vasant Panchal (50) and Raj, alias Rajesh Radheshaym Singh (35).
Nimbalkar said, “They are criminals on police record and have been involved in various cases of bag lifting and snatching. They would regularly come to Pune city from Thane to execute these crimes.”