Overview

• The accused, 40-year-old Sangboi Kom Serto from Manipur, lost his business analyst role last year and defaulted on EMIs for two Pune flats
• On July 31 he entered a Pimple Gurav housing society home posing as a courier and threatened the manager’s son with a licensed shotgun
• When the manager’s two sons tried to intervene he struck one on the foot and another on the face with the shotgun butt and drew a kukri before being overpowered
• Pune police arrested Serto on August 5 and seized a shotgun with 19 live rounds, a kukri and a homemade fake explosive device made of plastic pipes
• He is booked under robbery and causing hurt provisions and the Arms Act as the case spotlights financial distress driving desperate, armed crimes among white-collar workers