Three arrested for friend's murder

PUNE: Discussions over dumping their friend's body proved costly for an inebriated trio from Gandhinagar.

The wife of the deceased, who was searching him since October 29, accidentally heard the plot. She traced the decomposed body of

Amar Ingawale

(23) in an unattended room at HA colony in Pimpri on Tuesday and informed the police.

A Pimpri police team, led by senior inspector Vivek Mugalikar, swung into action and arrested the trio Vijay

Kamble

(33), Deepak Pawar (32) and Aniket Shinde (19), all from Gandhinagar in Pimpri on Tuesday. Ingawale's wife Poonam has lodged a complaint against them.

Raju Thubal, assistant inspector, Pimpri police station said that the three were Ingawale's friends. They used to gamble at his house in Gandhinagar, Pimpri everyday. "Ingawale had earned a good amount of money in gambling, from which Kamble asked a share. However, Ingawale refused," Thubal said.

A furious Kamble then hatched the plot to eliminate Ingawale. On October 29, they again gambled at Ingawale's house. The four left in the evening to drink toddy. "They then took an inebriated Ingawale along with them to the unattended room and bludgeoned him to death with bricks and sticks," he said. The next day, Kamble pretended to be oblivious of Ingawale's whereabouts and searched for him with Poonam.

On October 31, the suspects Kamble, Pawar and Shinde sat drinking liquor at Kamble's house. "They planned to shift Ingawale's body from the room as everyone in their locality had started looking for him," Thubal said. At that moment, Poonam came to Kamble's house for help and overheard them. She, with the help of relatives, traced Ingawale's body. "The suspects have been remanded to police custody till November 7," Thubal said.

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