All for fun, goons smash 16 cars, set one on fire in Nagpur

NAGPUR: Three goons, including one having criminal record, on a joyride after a birthday party, smashed the windscreens of at least 16 vehicles, and set one afire too, in East Nagpur in the early hours of Thursday. Two separate FIRs were filed at Ajni and Beltarodi police stations.
Beltarodi police team under senior inspector Vijay Akot has managed to zero down up on the three, including one from Hinganghat in Wardha, where he had slipped away after sensing police were after him.

Ritesh Dekate, Chirag Thulkar and Avish Taywade, all aged 18, had left a birthday party on a high and decided to have some fun while on their way back home. The three, travelling on a scooter, smashed windows of cars at Narendra Nagar, Borkute Layout, Ramkrushna Society, Rachnavatika Apartment, Manish Nagar and also Wardha Road.

The three had also set a car belonging to Sameer Raut on fire. Raut, an employee of a private company, had left his car parked in front of his residence at Narendra Nagar. “I had no enmity or rivalry with anyone. The three set my car on fire at about 4.20am and fled within a couple of minutes as seen in a CCTV camera,” said Raut.

The youngsters had also damaged a few cars at Lokhande Nagar and 85 Plot locality of Ajni.

Senior inspector Akot said CCTV footage had clear faces of the three miscreants. “Based on human intelligence network, the identities of the three were established. Dekate had slipped away to Hinganghat, from where he has been nabbed,” said the inspector.

Akot’s team comprising sub-inspector Vikas Manpiya, naik police constable Prashant Sonulkar, Nitin Bawane, Gopal Deshmukh, constables Avinash Thakre, Vijay Shribas and others worked hard to nab the three.