Two surrender in petrol pump ransacking case

NAGPUR: Police commissioner Ankush Dhanvijay has issued instructions to senior officers to arrest the youths involved in the ransacking of the petrol pump at RBI Square. Sitabuldi police stepped up the pressure leading to the surrender of two accused on Saturday. Police has also seized the car in which the youths were travelling.
Sitabuldi police have registered an offence of robbery after four unidentified youths decamped with cash Rs 8,000 after thrashing petrol pump attendants and supervisor in a car which was owned by senior inspector of Butibori police station Kalyansingh Rajput.Talking to TOI, Rajput said that a case of simple scuffle between the youths was being projected as robbery. "We had given the car to someone else on the occasion of birthday," he said. "There is no question of snatching money," said Rajput.
The youths also had apparently damaged a petrol dispenser and glass facade of the manager's cabin of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) pump. Police said that initially there was a dispute over supplying petrol in bottle which snowballed into a physical fight.
Sitabuldi police registered an offence after the petrol pump management approached police. Dhanvijay said that there is no question of any leniency against any accused.
It was learnt that Sitabuldi team had visited Butibori in search of the car and youths. This yielded result as two of the four youths walked into the police station. Nitesh Choudhary and Prakash Hedaoo, both in their twenties, have been now placed under arrest.
Though it has been reliably learnt that Rajput's son was also present in the car, the facts are yet to be cleared by the police for reasons best known to them. The arrested accused have told cops police that they too were also thrashed by petrol pump attendants but no one attempted robbery.