Three arrested from Goa

MUMBAI: Three accused who were wanted by the Navi Mumbai police for allegedly participating and causing violence during the Maratha Morcha Protest on July 25, were arrested in Goa's Calangute area by Navi Mumbai Crime Branch officials with help of Goa police on Thursday. The accused persons have been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to murder, causing grievous hurt, rioting and unlawful assembly.

The three arrested accused have been identified as Ashish Kale, Bhushan Agaskar and Chandrashekhar Patil, all residents of Navi Mumbai's Koparkhairane area, who had allegedly participated in the attacks made at civilians on July 25, when the Maratha Kranti Morcha had called a bandh in Mumbai along with adjoining areas like Thane and Navi Mumbai. During these violent protests, a 21-year-old man Rohan Todkar was allegedly assaulted by a mob, who unfortunately succumbed to his injuries two days later on July 27 in the state-run JJ Hospital.

A crime branch official requesting anonymity said the officials had received a tip-off from their informers of the three accused, hiding at a beachside hotel near Calangute, in Goa. Acting on the tip-off, the crime branch immediately contacted the local Goa police, who then nabbed the trio after a small chase and detained them. A team from Crime Branch too reached Calungate on Thursday morning and made the arrests in the case registered against the trio at Koparkhairane police station. Kale, Agaskar and Patil have been booked under sections 326, 302, 143, 147, 148 and 149 of the IPC which pertains to voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means, murder, unlawful assembly and rioting with deadly weapon respectively.