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Police arrested Rohit Dhotre (24), Pravin Nikalje (19) and Sachin Sable (29) and detained their minor accomplice, all residents of Nehrunagar in Pimpri. Assistant police inspector Atul Shete of Sant Tukaramnagar police said the accused had no prior acquaintance or enmity with the victim, Prabhakar Sarkate (50). Pune: Three men and a minor accomplice allegedly bludgeoned a stranger to death with a cement block while he was sleeping on a footpath at Nehrunagar in Pimpri in the early hours of Sunday. They murdered him for no reason. “Sarkate, a resident of Ambedkarnagar at Nehrunagar in Pimpri, was a daily-wage worker. In the early hours of Sunday, the four accused, who were also drunk, noticed him sleeping there. They picked up a cement block and bludgeoned him to death. “The accused fled the spot after the murder. They were traced with the help of CCTV footage and arrested. All of them are jobless,” Shete added.
Sarkate had slept on the footpath after getting drunk on Saturday night.