Pune: 17 booked for rioting with weapons in Loni Kalbhor

PUNE: The Loni Kalbhor police on Saturday registered a case of attempt to murder and rioting against 17 men for assaulting Shrinivas Jagtap (30), a resident of the same area, with sharp weapons and issuing threats to local residents around 6pm on Friday. On Saturday evening, police detained a suspect.
Jagtap, who works at a private firm in the city, lodged a complaint with the police saying that the men came to the spot armed with weapons and created chaos in the area.
Police sub-inspector (PSI) Jayant Hanchate of the Loni Kalbhor police told TOI, “The suspects wanted to terrorise local residents over the issue of parking, and came brandishing sharp weapons. A local resident had parked his two-wheeler in a lane that leads to the house of one suspect. The latter asked the two-wheeler owner to remove the vehicle. The resident objected and this enraged the suspect. The gang attacked and local residents resisted. Jagtap sustained injuries on his hands. However, the suspects then fled from the spot and two of them fell from their motorcycles. They escaped while only leaving behind two motorcycles.”