Tools used to knock down Gadkari’s bust recovered

PUNE: The Deccan Gymkhana police on Friday recovered the

hammers and axes

used to knock down Marathi playwright and poet

Ram Ganesh Gadkari

’s

bust

from its pedestal at

Sambhaji Garden

.

A team led by senior inspector Ajay Kadam recovered the items from the Mutha river.

Four workers of the

Sambhaji Brigade

and Swabhimani Sanghatana, in the early hours of Tuesday had knocked down the bust and had dumped it in the river.

The suspects Pradeep Kanse, Harshavardhan Magdum, Swapnil Kale and Ganesh Karale were produced before a city court on Friday. Assistant inspector Amol Devkar said the court extended their police custody for two days.