Overview
- Pune Rural Police said Thursday that a Khed homicide probe exposed links to two unsolved killings from November 2025.
- The investigation began after the body of Dhananjay Maruti Ghewade, 33, was found on March 18 with head and face injuries at a secluded spot about 10 kilometers from his village.
- Teams traced two suspects across roughly 145 km using footage from about 110 CCTV cameras and arrested them in Vadgaon Nimbalkar on March 25 after a chase through a sugarcane field, then recovered an iron rod, stones, burnt clothes, a phone from a well, and two country‑made pistols with cartridges.
- Police say the killing was a contract hit ordered by Nilesh Sanas and carried out by history‑sheeters Lalit Khollam and Nandlal Hole, and a court has remanded the two executors to custody until April 13.
- Interrogation led detectives to identify the November deaths of Rupali Wadekar and her son Shrikant as murders by the same pair, prompting Pune Rural and Thane police to reopen the cases and add murder charges to an earlier kidnapping file.