Drunk youngsters on rampage, damage 18 vehicles
   Date :30-Oct-2020

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Special Correspondent :
 
 
FEAR gripped the residents of Borkute Layout in Narendra Nagar after three miscreants went on a rampage setting a car afire and damaging as many 17 vehicles, including 14 four-wheelers, in the wee hours of Thursday. After damaging the vehicles, the hooligans fled the spot. The incident left the residents terrified in Ajni and Beltarodi areas. The persons whose vehicles were damaged by the miscreants suffered huge losses. After procuring the footages of CCTV cameras installed in the areas, Beltarodi Police identified the miscreants, including a BA Part-I student, and took them into custody.
 
The hooligans have been identified as Ritesh alias Hitesh Jagannath Dekate (18), a resident of Plot 42, Pachasi Plot Area, Chirag Deepak Thulkar (18), a resident of Plot No 316, Empress Mall Society, near Suyog Nagar Garden and Avish Suresh Taywade (18), a resident of Saikrupa Society, Narendra Nagar. Cops also seized the motorcycle used by the vandals for committing the crime. Chirag Thulkar works as a security guard at Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation. He had organised a birthday party of their common friend Vicky Malviya at the guard room at Ujwal Nagar.
 
The three culprits and their friends enjoyed liquor at the party. After the party, Ritesh, Chirag and Avish came to Narendra Nagar on a motorcycle. Then, they stole petrol from some vehicles parked in front of the houses in the locality. After filling the fuel tank of their bike to the brim, one of them riding pillion kept a bottle containing petrol with him. While riding triple seat, they stopped in front of Sameer Sunil Raut’s house in Narendra Nagar. One of the two pillion riders got down and torched the Ford Figo car (MH-31/EA-1143) of Raut after throwing petrol on it.
 
The miscreants smashed the windshields and windowpanes of 11 cars parked on the roadside in Borkute Layout, Narendra Nagar in Beltarodi area. Similarly, they smashed the windowpane of a Maruti Celerio car (MH-49/AS-1495) owned by Shubham Ramesh Khairkar parked in front of his house at Plot No 20, Rama Nagar on Rameshwari Road in Ajni area. They also broke the windshields of Maruti Omni van (MH-31/AG-7199) belonging to Niranjan Selkar, Hyundai i20car (MH-49/AS-6834) owned by Rajesh Vinay Lokhande, and a Ford car (MH-43/R-7412) of Praveen Shende in the same locality. Before fleeing the area, the three hoodlums damaged a few two-wheelers. Staff from Beltarodi Police Station led by Senior Inspector Vijay Akot rushed to the locality soon after getting information about the incident. Officers from Ajni Police Station also arrived at Rama Nagar on being informed by residents.
 
Senior Inspector Vijay Akot told ‘The Hitavada’ that police nabbed the miscreants after identifying them in the footages of CCTV cameras. “Preliminary inquiries revealed that accused Chirag and Avish were not involved in any serious crime in the past. However, we are verifying their crime record,” he added. Akot informed that accused Ritesh, who is involved in a criminal case earlier, was nabbed from Hinganghat. “Police took the accused trio into custody within 10 hours of the incident,” he added.
 
Beltarodi and Ajni Police registered separate offences under Sections 379, 435, 427 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code against the three hooligans, he added. The arrests were made by a team of Beltarodi Police led by PSI Vikas Manpiya under the supervision of Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar, Additional Commissioner (South Region) Dilip Zalke, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone IV) Dr Akshay Shinde, Assistant Commissioner of Police P M Karyakarte, Senior Inspector Akot and Inspector Dilip Salunke. Further investigations are under way.