Pune Crime Files: Bullock cart racer’s disappearance, ransom demand from his phone and a chilling murder

On November 14, conscionable six days earlier the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024, Jadhav near his location astatine astir 5 p.m. and told his woman Asha helium was going to a campaigning lawsuit of an Independent campaigner for the Maval Assembly seat. When Usha called Jadhav astatine astir 7 p.m. to inquire astir dinner, helium told her helium had already eaten and asked his household to person meal without him. At astir 11 pm, Usha received a WhatsApp connection from his telephone fig asking idiosyncratic to instrumentality their Fortuner SUV adjacent their aged house. Usha past asked their lad to instrumentality the SUV to the country located nearby.

Jadhav’s household approached the Pimpri Chinchwad police, and a lawsuit of kidnapping was registered astatine the Talegaon MIDC Police Station.

In the adjacent message, received astatine astir 5 americium November 15, “Jadhav” said helium was going for the mentation of a bullock cart contention and would instrumentality the adjacent day. Usha started getting WhatsApp calls from Jadhav’s phone, and erstwhile she called backmost nary 1 answered oregon she recovered it was switched off.

The adjacent day, she got the adjacent connection astatine astir 3.45 am, saying the Fortuner SUV had been parked adjacent a dam and should beryllium taken home. The adjacent messages that arrived asked for Jadhav’s debit paper details and currency of astir Rs 2 lakh. At this point, Usha replied to the message, saying her hubby could not benignant this accelerated nor helium would miss her calls. She asked for a video of her hubby oregon other the household would attack the police. At this point, the household received a ransom request of Rs 50 lakh.

Jadhav’s household approached the Pimpri Chinchwad police, and a lawsuit of kidnapping was registered astatine the Talegaon MIDC Police Station. A squad led by Senior Inspector Devendra Chavan of the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Pimpri Chinchwad constabulary launched the probe.

“Within the archetypal fewer hours into the probe, we got captious method leads done the compartment telephone determination investigation and CCTV cameras successful the area. We zeroed successful connected a fishy Suraj Wankhede, 23, whose household is simply a tenant of different location of the Jadhav household successful the aforesaid area. Wankhede and his begetter had constructed the contiguous location of Jadhavs and helium knew the household well. It came to airy that determination were some fiscal and idiosyncratic disputes betwixt Suraj Wankhede and Jadhav. Wankhede had been reasoning of eliminating Jadhav for months,” said a constabulary officer.

Sandeep Doiphode, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said, that soon they arrested Wankhede from the Badhalwadi country of Maval erstwhile helium was astir to flee. “Our probe revealed that Wankhede and his accomplice, Ranjit Kumar, a Bihar autochthonal labourer, kidnapped Jadhav connected November 14. They murdered Jadhav connected the aforesaid time by strangling him with a enactment and subsequently started staging it arsenic kidnapping for ransom. Using Jadhav’s SUV, which helium had asked for utilizing Jadhav’s compartment phone, Wankhede took his assemblage to a elevation successful the Vahagaon country successful Khed and burnt it”.

Another officer, who was a portion of the probe, said their probe into Jadhav’s execution besides revealed different details. “Wankhede had called Jadhav connected the pretext of property-related discussion. Wankhede and Ranjit Kumar kidnapped and murdered Jadhav connected the aforesaid time and past started sending messages to Jadhav’s woman utilizing Jadhav’s phone,” said the officer.

The serviceman said Wankhede took Jadhav’s assemblage successful the Fortuner SUV arsenic they looked for a spot to destruct it.

“After burning the body, Wankhede washed the SUV wrong retired and parked it adjacent Jadhav’s house. He past asked it to beryllium picked up by sending a connection from Jadhav’s phone. With the coordinated probe connected method leads and meticulous ground-level investigation, we arrested Wankhede. A squad has been sent extracurricular Maharashtra to apprehension his accomplice Ranjit Kumar and we anticipation to apprehension him soon,” added the officer.