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The informant Ajit Kailas Salve, aged 26 years, resident of Matoshri Nagar, Ranjangaon Shenpunji, Taluka Gangapur, District Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, stated that he is employed at Sonni Yessar Private Limited, Jambard Chowk, MIDC Waluj and resides with his parents and brother Bhushan Kailas Salve.
On 31/12/2023, his brother Bhushan Kailas Salve and Gayatri Balasaheb Gayakwad, aged 20 years, left together. Thereafter, Gayatri's mother lodged a missing complaint at MIDC Waluj Police Station. On 01/01/2024, the informant's father Kailas Salve, Gayatri's father Balasaheb Gayakwad, Gayatri's uncle Ganesh Gayakwad, and Gayatri's maternal uncle Shinde went to Nagpur in search of Bhushan and Gayatri but could not trace them and returned on 02/01/2024.
On 03/01/2024, the informant, his father Kailas Salve, Arun Kharat, and his mother Shilpa Salve went to MIDC Waluj Police Station to lodge a missing complaint regarding Bhushan Salve. As they did not have Bhushan's photograph, the informant went to Ranjangaon to collect it. When he returned to the police station, his father was not found there. After searching for him outside, they returned home at about 11.00 p.m. without lodging the complaint.
In the intervening night of 04/01/2024, between 12.00 a.m. and 1.00 a.m., Balasaheb Gayakwad telephoned the informant and informed him that his father was lying near Hotel Aditya Bar, Pratap Chowk. The informant went there and found Uddhav Gholap and Arjun Fingale, friends of Ganesh Gayakwad, present. Arjun Fingale allegedly caught hold of the informant, while Ganesh Gayakwad and Uddhav Gholap assaulted his father by fists and slaps. When the informant requested them by stating that Bhushan Salve and Gayatri Gayakwad had voluntarily left together and both were majors, Ganesh Gayakwad and Uddhav Gholap also assaulted the informant. The informant somehow escaped from the clutches of Ganesh Gayakwad, Uddhav Gholap and Arjun Fingale, placed his injured father on a motorcycle, and took him home.
While returning home, Kailas Salve informed the informant that Ganesh Gayakwad and Uddhav Gholap had assaulted him demanding that Gayatri be brought back. After reaching home, Kailas Salve did not take food and went to sleep. Though the family requested him to seek medical treatment, he refused. He repeatedly complained to the family that Ganesh Gayakwad, Uddhav Gholap, and Arjun Fingale had assaulted him on the head, due to which he was suffering severe pain.
On 08/01/2024, when the informant tried to wake his father to go to the police station for lodging the complaint, he found that his father was unconscious and not responding. He immediately shifted him by auto-rickshaw to MIDC Waluj Police Station, from where the police issued a medical memo and referred him to Ghati Hospital. Kailas Salve was admitted in Ward No. 19 and was unconscious. During treatment, the doctors informed that the CT Scan revealed bleeding in his brain, due to which he had become unconscious.
The informant alleged that Ganesh Gayakwad, resident of Matoshri Nagar, Ranjangaon, along with his friends Uddhav Gholap and Arjun Fingale, assaulted him and intentionally assaulted his father on the head with the intention of causing his death. Subsequently, Kailas Salve succumbed to the injuries. The informant requested legal action against all the accuse
On 02 January 2024, the complainant, Arjun Chandram Dakhvi (56 years old), a farmer, was returning home on his motorcycle after receiving treatment at Yashoda Hospital, Akluj. Due to an earlier land dispute and pending civil litigation between the parties, the accused had been threatening him and pressuring him to withdraw the case.
At around 3:00 PM, while the complainant was travelling through Bamhulgaon, the accused Vicky @ Appanna Rajaram Parade intentionally blocked his motorcycle with another motorcycle, causing him to fall onto the road. Immediately thereafter, Roshan Balasaheb Parade, Gajendra Samadhan Parade, and Ishwar Balasaheb Parade joined Vicky and assaulted the complainant.
During the assault, Vicky attacked the complainant with a knife, causing injuries to his left forearm and both legs. The other accused also assaulted him with fists and kicks. They abused him in filthy language, issued caste-based insults, threatened to kill him, and repeatedly demanded that he withdraw the pending land dispute case.
The complainant sustained serious injuries and was initially treated at a local hospital before being referred to Yashoda Hospital, Akluj for further medical treatment. He alleged that the attack was a pre-planned attempt to murder him over the ongoing land dispute and previous enmity. Accordingly, he lodged a complaint against all four accused for assault, criminal intimidation, caste-based abuse, and attempt to murder.
The victim in the incident is a fifteen-year-old girl. This girl is studying in 9th class. The girl's father died a few years ago. She lives with her mother and siblings. According to the girl, the culprit Sanjay Machhindra Mohite and the culprit number 2 Vilas Vinayak live behind their house and since before Diwali, both the culprits were trying to increase their conversation with the victim. They were repeatedly trying to talk to her. One day, Sanjay Machhindra Mohite called the victim to talk to her. One day before Diwali, the culprit Sanjay Mohite called the victim behind the house around 1 pm and said, "I love you very much and let's meet in my farm." At 3 pm, he took the victim to his farm and raped the victim. He also threatened to kill the victim if she told anyone. But after that, Sanjay Machhindra Mohite started having sexual intercourse with the girl repeatedly. On 212 2013, the victim told the victim that Sanjay Machhindra Mohite had sex with her. He took her to the farm where Vilas Vinayak Mule also raped the victim and then Sanjay Machhindra Mohite also raped the victim.
The accused first physically assaulted a relative of the victim someday around November 23, 2022. They had showed up to beat up the roommate of the victim's relative, but as the roommate was not present, they physically assaulted the victim's relative instead. When the victim found out about this, they came to the defense of their relative, after which the accused threatened to beat up the victim and their relative in their hometown. On December 30, 2022, the accused showed up at a salon and physically assaulted the victim's relative. The FIR was then filed on December 1st, 2022, under IPC sections 307, 326, 324, 452, 34; and PoA sections 4(1), 1(s). DYSP Basavraj Shivpunje conducted the spot inspection.
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