After spending over years on the run, a person accused of trying homicide was ultimately nabbed with the aid of using the police immediately in his attempt to see his family, officers said.
According to the Vishnu Nagar police, the accused, identified as Sunil Bhandari (35), was involved in a lethal attack on Dombivali resident Hemant Bhoir (43), his brother Milind (42) and their buddy Pramod Patil (39) in March 2019. The trio was on their way home after attending a pre-marriage ceremony of ‘haldi’ whilst Bhandari and 8 others accosted them.
“The sufferers and the accused had a long-standing dispute over a land deal gone sour. Both the parties have been present in the ‘haldi’ rite wherein one of them had run into the alternative at the same time as dancing, which additionally led to a sparkling quarrel. Subsequently, the accused lay in look ahead to the sufferers and attacked them with swords, sticks and a country-made pistol,” police inspector Rahul Khilare, Vishnu Nagar police station, Dombivli, Maharashtra, said.
The attack was so severe in nature that Milind lost each of his arms from the elbows downwards after the accused allegedly chopped them off with swords. He spent numerous days in a severe condition withinside the hospital however in the end survived. Meanwhile, the Vishnu Nagar police registered a complaint of attempt-to-homicide in opposition to the accused and arrested seven of them, while remained at large.
“Since the case changed into registered, we made repeated inquiries with Bhandari’s family, pals and associates. We additionally attempted tracking his cell phone location however he had switched off his phone as quickly because the crime changed into devoted and there has been no signal of him,” Khilare said.
Over the following and a half years, the investigating team, thru repeated visits to the Devicha Pada region in Dombivli wherein Bhandari stayed, cultivated numerous informants based around his house. All of those have been given a single task - to tell the police as quickly as Bhandari was seen.