Gangster, 15 aides booked under MCOCA

PUNE : The city police on Wednesday booked criminal on the police records Mahesh Kiran Dongre (29) of Dhavade Vasti in Bhosari and his 15 accomplices under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for allegedly running an organised crime syndicate in Pimpri-Chinchwad area.
Dongre was right had of the gangster Sachin alias Gotya Kundlik Dhavade of Bhosari.Dhavade and accomplices had bludgeoned Ankush Landge, corporator of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, to death in the year 2006. Six years after that was in the year 2012, Landge’s son Rahul Landge had murdered Dhavade and took revenge of the murder of his father, police said.
The police said that after the death of Gotya Dhavade, his close aide Kiran Dongre started running the gang. The suspect Dongre and his gang members started extorting money from the scrap dealers. In the last month, the gang members murdered Ganesh Waghmare in Bhosari following a previous rivalry, police said.
The police have arrested about nine suspects involved in the murder of Waghmare. However, Seven including gang leader are still at large. “We have launched a search to trace the gang leader and Dhavade. We will soon nab them,” a police officer from the Bhosari police station said.
For maintaining law and order situation in the police also have booked Dongre and 15 under the stringent sections of the MCOCA Act. Assistant commissioner of police (Pamper division) Mohan Vidhate is investigating the case.