By Dheeraj Fartode A Christmas night party at Dabo Club ended in murder early Friday morning after a clash between two groups spiralled into a violent attack, leaving one man dead and another fighting for his life. The incident took place around 4 am near Pride Square, close to the club, within the limits of Sonegaon Police Station. Police said that both groups were inside the club but arrived at different times. The victims and their friends reached Dabo around 11.30 pm on Thursday, while the other group entered close to midnight. Trouble reportedly began inside the club when one of the accused identified as Mehul Mehul Rahate allegedly asked for the phone number of a woman who was with the victims. The woman came from Mumbai for the party. The remark was triggered a heated argument. Although the situation appeared to settle briefly, tensions flared up again once the groups stepped outside, said police. Fight starts in the club According to the police, a verbal alterc...
Crime Branch have arrested an automobile dealer, Guddu Bhatia (35), in the murder case of transporter Bhupendra Singh Manjit Singh Makan alias Bobby Sardar (46). “The Innova car in which Bobby Sardar was strangled to death was provided by Bhatia,” said police.
A police officer informed that role of Bhatia came to fore during interrogation of four arrested accused. Bhatia was member of the rival gang that killed Bobby Sardar. As Little Sardar, Manjeet Wade and others decided to eliminate Bobby, Bhatia also joined them and assured to arrange the vehicle. The Innova car was registered in the name of Bhatia. Accused Hani Chandok took the vehicle from his garage on April 25, he told the police.
CCTV image of the Innova car led to cracking of the murder case. After getting the images, the police had launched searches for a white coloured Innova car with a sentence written in Punjabi language and found it with Bhatia. He initially told the police that the car was sold to Chandok for Rs 10 lakh. Hence, the police had arrested Chandok. Bhatia was arrested when the needle of suspicion pointed towards him during investigation. He was arrested by the police late Thursday night. The police have produced Bhatia and four other accused in the court on Friday and they were remanded to three-days police custody. APP Adv Mrs Borkar represented the state while Adv Sudeep Jaiswal and Adv Atul Rawlani apeared for the accused.
Bobby left his office on April 25 at around 11.30 pm. The accused took Bobby with them. He was murdered by the accused by strangulating him using a rope in the wee hours of April 26. The accused had threw the body under the bridge near Kathalabodi village in a bid to destroy evidence.
Comments
Post a Comment