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Maharashtra: Five held in murder case

Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police in the early hours of Sunday nabbed five criminals on police records at Patas toll plaza on the Pune-Solapur highway while they were on the run after allegedly hacking their 20-year-old friend to death in Bhosari on Saturday night.

Police said a quarrel over the initials tattooed on arms signifying the name of the gang leader led to the murder.

A team led by the assistant inspector, Siddheshwar Kailase, nabbed the suspects — Mangesh More, Rohan Saudatkar, Pranesh Ghorpade, Shubham Vani and Vaibhav Dhore — who were on their way to Latur. Police identified the victim as Mayur Madke, also with past criminal records.

“Madke had tattooed ‘MM’ on his arm and one of the suspects, Mangesh More, too, had tattooed the same initial. A few days back, when Madke asked him about the tattoo, More had told him ‘MM’ stands for Mangesh More gang and not Mayur Madke gang. This led to a fight between the two and on Saturday, More and his aides hacked Madke to death,” Kailase added.

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