PUNE:
Wakad
police recently arrested six young men for assaulting a 42-year-old cab driver with sharp weapon, wooden sticks and stones of
Gurunanak Nagar
in
Thergaon
after driver spotted them urinating near his house.
Police arrested
Akshay Dhawale
(21),
Aniket Kamble
(22),
Rakesh Kamble
(22), Suraj Kamble (21), Ashish Goyar (21), and
Shivam Fadtare
(21), all residents of Thergaon, following an
FIR
lodged by the driver, Suryakant Vishwanath Jadhav.
According to police, at around 10 pm on Thursday, the suspects went to a spot located near Jadhav’s residence. They halted their motorcycles and started urinating near his house.
Police said that on spotting them urinating near his house, Jadhav came rushing out and asked them not to urinate there. However, the suspects hurled abuses at him. The suspects issued threats of dire consequences to Dhawale and left the spot.
However, within minutes they returned to Dhawale’s residence and called him out. Dhawale came out of the house and they assaulted Dhawale with sharp weapon, stones and sticks. Police said that Dhawale sustained serious head injuries in the assault. He has been admitted in a private hospital.
The suspects fled from the spot on their motorcycles but nabbed them later in the day.