3 days ago
Minor detained for robbery, search on for accomplices
Pune: Mahalunge MIDC police on Sunday detained a 17-year-old youth and are searching for his two accomplices, who assaulted and robbed two workers at Bhamboli in Khed taluka last month.
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A terrified victim (19), who works with a private company in Mahalunge MIDC, did not approach the police immediately after the robbery.
"After detaining the minor, we traced the victim. After that, he lodged a complaint, "Senior police inspector Nitin Gite of the Mahalunge MIDC police told TOI. Gite said that the robbery happened on May 13. The complainant and his three colleagues were returning to their rented accommodation after the night shift when three unknown men stopped them near Bhamboli.
"The men demanded money from them. When the victims refused to give them the money, the trio thrashed them and snatched Rs500 from the pocket of one of the four workers," Gite said. The officer said that the trio then forced the victim to transfer Rs1,000 to a UPI account. They threatened the workers not to approach the police and fled from there.
"Our crime branch team detained one of the trio in connection with some other crime. During the questioning, he admitted his involvement in the robbery. We are searching for two others," the officer said.
