A real estate agent from Indapur lodged a complaint with Baramati taluka police on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the murder attempt on shipping firm owner Rana Suryavanshi
Two people attacked Rana, the owner of Rana Shipping Company, on the highway near Baramati airstrip around 7.30pm on Sunday despite having police protection. His friend, Laxmikant Mahadev Suryavanshi (42), a real estate agent from Indapur, lodged a complaint with Baramati taluka police on Tuesday afternoon. “His convoy reached the Baramati area around 7.10pm on Sunday. Solapur rural police on Sept 28 last year arrested four people for allegedly attempting to murder Rana.
Additional commissioner of police (crime) Tejaswi Satpute told TOI , “We received some leads in the case and tracked down the two suspects in the Karvenagar area. Superintendent of police, Pune, Sandeep Singh Gill said, “We are probing the case. We have handed over the two men to the Pune Rural police for further legal action. We cannot comment on their role in the crime. The FIR stated that Rana always travelled in a security convoy, including police and private bodyguards. Laxmikant and three of his friends greeted him at the spot. They decided to change the driver of Rana’s SUV. At that moment, two youngsters surfaced on a scooter,” the FIR stated. The police bodyguard chased the assailant and nabbed him. The youth bit the bodyguard’s hand while he was being taken to the latter’s vehicle and fled into an agricultural field. The scooter rider also escaped. The suspects, travelling in an SUV and carrying a sword, fled after threatening the shipping firm owner when he was returning to Solapur from Akalkot with his three police guards.
Pune: The crime branch sleuths of Pune city police on Monday evening detained two people from the Karvenagar area in connection with the attempt to murder shipping company owner Rana Suryavanshi.