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Pune: Bund Garden police have recently arrested a man (19) and detained his minor accomplice for allegedly attempting to kill a farmer (55) on a contract worth Rs 50,000 from another farmer over a land dispute. Santosh Pandhare, senior inspector of Bund Garden police, said, “We have arrested a 19-year-old man from Gultekdi and detained his minor accomplice, a resident of the Dandekar Bridge area. Because they belonged to his village, the two men knew the farmer.
During interrogation, the two suspects told the police that the farmer from Umarga had met them at an eatery and offered them money to eliminate Suryavanshi. The police examined CCTV footage and conducted a technical analysis to identify the motorcycle’s registration number. They subsequently traced the two assailants.
On Sept 22, Suryavanshi visited the Commissioner’s Office for Cooperation to attend a hearing in the land dispute case.
Suryavanshi and another farmer were involved in a land dispute, according to the police. After the hearing, he was heading towards Sassoon General Hospital when two men approached him on a motorcycle and repeatedly slashed his face with a sharp cutter. The suspects then sped away.