14-day judicial custody for twin-murder accused

Nashik:

Rahul Jagtap

— the accused in the twin murder case of 70-year-old former registrar of a university and his son — was produced before a city court at the end of his 14-day police custody on Monday, after which he was sent in 14-day judicial custody. Jagtap was arrested on February 16, in connection with the murder of former registrar of

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

(YCMOU)

Nanasaheb Kapadnis

and his MBBS son Amit (35).The Sarkarwada police investigating the case had earlier got his 10 day-police custody in view of the gravity of the case. On Friday, the police got four more days of Jagtap’s custody. On Monday, the accused was sent to judicial custody. Jagtap, an entrepreneur, who stayed in the same apartment where

Nanasaheb

Kapadnis resided had killed the latter for his property in December 2021. He had dumped the body in the jungle of Palghar. In a gap of eight days, he also killed Nanasaheb’s son.Since he had got hold of Nanasaheb and his son’s phone as well as all details of their investments, bank deposits, cheque books, passwords, etc he had withdrawn lakhs of rupees from their account.