9 held for attack on school official, guard

PUNE: The Wanowrie police on Thursday arrested nine persons, including five women, for attacking the administrator and the security guard of Rosary School on Salunke Vihar Road in Kondhwa on the night of June 6.

Administrator Ashwin Kamat, in his complaint, said that the suspects broke open the locks of the school gate around 8.30pm and attacked him and the guard. They also abused him in a foul language and snapped the wires of CCTV camera.

According to the complaint, a property dispute between one of the suspects, Nishant Vazir, and Vinay Aranha, director of Rosary Education Group, is pending before the civil court. Kamat had registered a complaint against Vazir at Wanowrie police station in 2016.

Aranha told TOI, “I had sold the land, measuring around 20,000 sqft, to Vazir, where the school is now located on perpetual lease but the deal did not materialise then due to some reasons. I returned the money to Vazir but he did not cancel the agreement deed. I then filed a case against him in the civil court for cancelling the agreement. The case is pending for hearing.”

Assistant inspector Asaram Shete of the Wanowrie police said, “The property was given to Vazir on a rental basis but he did not pay the rent, following which a dispute broke out between him and Aranha. Vazir and others tried to take forcible possession of the property though he did not possess a court order. We have arrested the suspects after receiving information about the incident from the school administrator.”

The suspects, Vazir (51), Avinash More (32), Sachin Suryavanshi (33), Rahul Girase (25), Anjali Shinde (27), Rupali Jadhav (24), Mangal Jadhav (50), Neha Divekar (40) and Sumita Kale (21), were arrested on charges of rioting, among other charges, of the

Indian Penal Code

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The suspects were produced before the Pune Cantonment court and were later released on bail.