2 main suspects in Khed double murder held

Pune: The Chikhali police on Tuesday arrested two main suspects of the double murder at Shiroli village in Khed taluka on August 7.

A police team, led by senior inspector Satish Mane, arrested Suraj Randive (20) and Kiran Belamagi (21) from Chinchwadgaon. The duo, along with their accomplices, allegedly hacked Niranjan Gurav and Bajrang Jadhav to death.

The Chikhali police had earlier arrested three persons for allegedly helping the assailants in the crime.

“The police probe revealed that Suraj’s brother, Aniket Randive, a criminal on police records, was murdered in Chikhali on May 29 and it was suspected that Gurav and Jadhav helped Aniket’s killers. Suraj hatched the plot of the latter’s murder to avenge Aniket’s death,” said an officer from the Chikhali police.

The officer said the duo has been handed over to the Khed police for further probe.

The bodies of Gurav and Jadhav were found on a hillock on Saturday morning. The breakthrough came the same day when the Khed police arrested one Manoj Lokhande for an offence under the Indian Arms Act. “When we showed him the photographs of the bodies, Lokhande identified the deceased duo as Gurav and Jadhav,” assistant inspector Rahul Lad of the Khed police said.