Five of the eight accused wanted by Taloja police in an attempt to murder case have been arrested within 12 hours of the crime.
Navi Mumbai: Five of the eight accused wanted by Taloja police in an attempt to murder case have been arrested within 12 hours of the crime. An FIR for attempt to murder and under the Arms Act was registered against five identified accused and their three unidentified aides after the firing incident at the road junction near Cidco-built Marwa society in sector 22, near Pendhar metro in Taloja Phase-2 in which one person had sustained a bullet injury to his neck and the other person escaped unhurt as he ducked the fired bullet. The arrested five accused were produced before the Panvel holiday court on Sunday that remanded them to police custody till Oct 28.
A police source informed that five police teams of Taloja and three of the crime branch were formed to detect the serious crime. Using technical expertise and informer network, nine suspects were detained from Ulwe, Wagholi in Raigad and Pune. The Pune police assisted in nabbing the suspects. Upon their thorough interrogation, out of them, five suspects confessed to the crime and they were arrested. They were identified as Akash Ramesh Dange, Ganesh Dattatray Lavare, Aniket Pratap Narwade, Rudra Dadabhau Baravkar and Saurabh Goraksh Chaudhary. the firearms used in the crime are yet to be recovered While two police teams are searching for the other accused in Pune.