IN THE second homicide of a minor in a day, a 17-year-old youth was brutally hacked to loss of life with machetes over a dispute with a rival group that had began throughout Ganesh competition, police mentioned. Three minors, all 17 years previous, have been detained.
The incident passed off round 11.15 pm on Tuesday in Vadgaon Budruk space on Sinhagad Street. Police recognized the deceased as Shripat Anant Bankar (17), a resident of Vadgaon Budruk. âPreliminary probe suggests the deceased and the three accused had a dispute throughout Ganesh competition earlier this 12 months. On Tuesday morning the accused accosted the deceased, who was on his bike. They attacked him with machetes a number of occasions and in addition hit him with a rock. They fled the scene leaving him bleeding on the bottom. Some folks took Bankar to hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless,â mentioned an officer from Sinhagad Street police station. The accused have been detained and can be produced earlier than the Juvenile Justice Board.
The incident got here simply hours after a 17-year-old school scholar was hacked to loss of life in a machete assault by two assailants when he was on his approach to school in Ramtekdi space of Pune on Tuesday morning. Police mentioned the assault was the fallout of a previous dispute between the deceased and one of many assailants.
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