Nashik: The Nashik Road crime branch arrested Sunil Babasaheb Shirsath, chairperson of Shri Sant Mauli Co-operative Credit Society Ltd’s Pathardi branch in Ahilyanagar district, in an alleged Rs 4 crore fraud case.
The case was registered at Pathardi police station on Sept 9 under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act against Shirsath, vice-chairperson Babasaheb Shirsath and board directors Ambadas Avhad, Anand Sanap, Sharad Markad, Chhaya Borude, Abasaheb Giri, Nanda Shirsath, Yuvraj Markad, Bharat Jadhav and Amol Lohiya. Acting on an alert from the Ahilyanagar Economic Offences Wing, the Nashik police launched a search after Assistant Commissioner of Police Sandip Mitke received specific information.
“Shirsath was hiding at his in-laws’ home at Nashik Road from where he was nabbed and presented to the Ahilyanagar police,” a senior officer said. Police inspector Sandip Pawar and his team traced Shirsath to his father-in-law’s residence near Adhav petrol pump. On spotting the police, Shirsath climbed onto the building’s exterior duct to hide. “When officers approached, he threatened to jump and commit suicide. police personnel Avinash Devare, Ketan Sonawane and Kunal Ghorpade set up a ladder on one side While the fire brigade was being summoned. Simultaneously, Pawar, Sushant Dighe, Samadhan Jadhav, and Bharat Raut breached the gallery window, restrained Shirsath from behind, and rescued him without injury,” the officer added. Shirsath was safely taken into custody and handed over to Ahilyanagar EOW for further legal action.