Maharashtra: Four held for bid to rob jeweller in Latur; weapons seized

The Latur Police in Maharashtra have arrested four persons for allegedly trying to rob a jeweller of his valuables an official said on Tuesday reported the PTIAccording to the news agency the incident took place on Monday night in Gul Market area of Latur city in Maharashtra he saidThe local crime branch took action against them and seized weapons from the accused identified as Santosh Patekar 26 Nilesh alias Bharat alias Nana Kshirsagar 25 Dnyaneshwar Potdar 31 and Akshay Mahamuni 28 they said as per the PTIPolice had received information that some persons would rob a jeweller by taking away his bag containing jewellery Based on the tipoff police began taking action These four persons were found moving suspiciously in Gul Market area The police nabbed them even before they could harm the jeweller the police official saidDuring their interrogation the accused admitted that they hatched a conspiracy to rob the jeweller with the help of weapons They told the police that Potdar and Mahamuni were debtridden and in order to earn easy money they hatched a conspiracy he saidA crime branch team led by inspector Sanjivan Mirkale took the action against the accusedMeanwhile in an another incidenta 35yearold man allegedly killed his wife after a monetary dispute packed the body in a drum and threw it in a forest area in Maharashtras Thane district police said on Tuesday according to the PTIThe incident took place on Sunday and following a complaint by the family of the 32yearold victim the man was arrested on Monday they saidThe couple was married for 12 years and the accused resident of Titwala area here used to frequently harass his wife and demanded money from her parents an official from Kalyan rural police station said as per the PTIThe womans family had already given Rs 80000 to the man He wanted Rs 2 lakh for buying an autorickshaw which they could not give he said the news agency reported on TuesdayThe couple quarrelled frequently over this and other issuesOn Sunday the man allegedly hit on his wifes head with an iron rod and then strangulated her to death with a rope the official saidThe man then packed the body in a large drum transported it to a forest in an autorickshaw near Ambernath and threw it there he saidOn Monday the womans mother called the man after not getting any response from her daughterThe man told her that he had killed her daughter and thrown the body in a forest and that he was already at a police station the official saidBased on the information local police rushed to the spot retrieved the body and sent it to a government hospital for postmortemThe man was arrested and booked under Indian Penal Code sections 302 murder and 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence the police said adding a probe was on into the casewith PTI inputs