3rd arrest in Pune murders
The Mumbai crime branch arrested a third person in connection with the double murder case, in which a Pune-based 83-year-old realtor was killed along with his secretary last week his sprawling bungalow grabbed in Juhu.
The Pune crime branch had earlier arrested two accused in the case, including the main accused from Mumbai.
The arrested accused Nitin Bhatiya (51), lives in Vikhroli. Unit-9 officers nabbed him on Sunday afternoon following a tip-off that he would come to meet a friend at Vakola Bridge in Santa Cruz.
“Bhatiya was reportedly involved in hatching the conspiracy to kill realtor Vinod Broker (83) and his secretary Usha Nair (51) on April 30 in Khandla. He helped the main accused Ismail Shaikh (38) from Naupada and Ravindra Shankar Reddy from Khar (east) to snuff out the duo.
They planned it over the deal of Broker’s `42 crore bungalow in Juhu,” said a crime branch police official.
All accused are now in the Pune police’s custody and were booked under relevant sections of the IPC.
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Boy held for rape wants to marry girl
Mumbai, May 5: The Bombay high court has granted bail to a 20-year-old youth arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl after both of them told the court that they were in a relationship and would like to get married. The accused was arrested on February 21 by the Nallasopara police after receiving a complaint from the victim’s mother that her daughter was missing. The victim, a class 10 student, had gone missing on February 18 and was found with the accused three days later. The victim, who is six months’ pregnant now, told the police that she and the accused were in a relation since childhood and had given her consent for sexual relationship. The accused was, however, booked for rape under the IPC as the consent of a minor girl (below 18 years of age) is not considered as consent given in law. He then approached the high court seeking bail and said that he wanted to be with the girl during delivery of their child. Justice Sadhana Jadhav, while granting bail recently, observed that the applicant has not denied paternity of the child. “Even the mother of the victim had earlier filed an application seeking to quash the complaint against the applicant so as to get them (victim and accused) married,” the court said. —PTI
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