Overview

• Shahapur police say 47-year-old Ramdas Gorkhane was assaulted over an old dispute and his body was found near the Samruddhi Highway on Tuesday morning.
• Investigators have arrested Sunil Nimase and Dhananjay Sugir and launched a manhunt for the remaining suspects named by the victim’s nephew.
• An FIR cites kidnapping and murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act; the body was sent to JJ Hospital for forensic examination.
• In Pune’s Kothrud, 36-year-old Prakash Dhumal was shot in the thigh after an argument over giving way for two-wheelers; police say he is stable.
• Kothrud police detained suspects named in an FIR—Mayur Kumbhare, Musa Shaikh, Rohit Akhad and Ganesh Raut—booked them for attempt to murder and Arms Act offences, and are probing suspected Nilesh Ghaiwal gang links and the firearm source.