Overview
- Constable Amol Katkar of Crime Branch Unit 3 sustained serious head injuries around 1am after a road-rage dispute on Law College Road and is stable under treatment at a private hospital.
- Police say two men struck Katkar with a wooden stick while two others stood guard, and all four accused have been identified as Nikhil Pravin Jagtap, Sunny Sanjay Khomane, Prathamesh Dyaneshwar Jadhav and Omkar Khirsagar.
- A case has been registered at Deccan Police Station under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the accused are residents of Dattawadi.
- CCTV footage has been recovered and multiple teams from the Crime Branch and local stations are canvassing surveillance and eyewitness accounts to track the suspects.
- Arrests were not announced as of the latest reports, and officers describe the incident as stemming from a road-rage altercation with the exact motive still under assessment.