Two cops held for negligence in drug kingpin escape case | Pune News
PUNE: The metropolis police’s crime department on Friday arrested two policemen on the cost of negligence, which resulted in drug kingpin Lalit Patil’s escape from the prisoner’s ward of Sassoon General Hospital on October 2.
“Police naik Natharam Kale (36) and constable Amit Jadhav (37) were responsible for escorting Patil from the prisoner’s ward no. 16 to another unit for a medical test, when Patil escaped from their custody.Probe revealed that there was negligence on their part in discharging duty,” deputy commissioner of police (Crime) Amol Zende informed TOI.
On October 1, the crime department seized a Rs2.14 crore MD parcel from Patil’s aide, who was stepping out of the hospital. Patil escaped from the hospital the next day.
Arrested cops a part of 10 suspended for Lalit’s escape
The two have now been charged beneath part 223 (escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code. The police produced them earlier than a magisterial courtroom, which ordered their custodial remand until Saturday.
Patil, who was arrested in October 2020 in a Rs20-crore mephedrone (MD) drug haul case at Chakan, was lodged in Yerawada central jail as an undertrial earlier than being shifted to the Sassoon hospital in June for remedy of varied illnesses.
On October 1, the Pune crime department seized a Rs2.14 crore MD parcel from Patil’s aide, who was stepping out of the hospital. This raised a row over how Patil was managing his drug racket from the hospital. Patil escaped from Sassoon the next day.
Mumbai’s Sakinaka police rearrested him on October 17 from Channasandra, 100km from Bengaluru, in one other drug haul case registered with them on August 8. Pune police secured Patil’s custody on October 31 within the Rs2.14 crore drug haul case. He is in police custody until November 20.
In between, Pune police had arrested Dattatraya Dhoke, who picked up Patil from Ambedkar Road and dropped him on the Kiwale exit level of the expressway in a automobile, Pradnya Kamble and Archana Nikam – each of whom harboured Patil in Nashik, Patil’s brother Bhushan Patil and his shut aide Abhishek Balkawade in addition to Dhoke’s employer and Rosary schooling group companion Vinay Aranha, who was beneath remedy on the prisoner’s ward, on the cost of helping and financing Patil’s escape. Kale and Jadhav’s arrest takes the full variety of accused within the case to eight.
“Police naik Natharam Kale (36) and constable Amit Jadhav (37) were responsible for escorting Patil from the prisoner’s ward no. 16 to another unit for a medical test, when Patil escaped from their custody.Probe revealed that there was negligence on their part in discharging duty,” deputy commissioner of police (Crime) Amol Zende informed TOI.
On October 1, the crime department seized a Rs2.14 crore MD parcel from Patil’s aide, who was stepping out of the hospital. Patil escaped from the hospital the next day.
Arrested cops a part of 10 suspended for Lalit’s escape
The two have now been charged beneath part 223 (escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code. The police produced them earlier than a magisterial courtroom, which ordered their custodial remand until Saturday.
Patil, who was arrested in October 2020 in a Rs20-crore mephedrone (MD) drug haul case at Chakan, was lodged in Yerawada central jail as an undertrial earlier than being shifted to the Sassoon hospital in June for remedy of varied illnesses.
On October 1, the Pune crime department seized a Rs2.14 crore MD parcel from Patil’s aide, who was stepping out of the hospital. This raised a row over how Patil was managing his drug racket from the hospital. Patil escaped from Sassoon the next day.
Mumbai’s Sakinaka police rearrested him on October 17 from Channasandra, 100km from Bengaluru, in one other drug haul case registered with them on August 8. Pune police secured Patil’s custody on October 31 within the Rs2.14 crore drug haul case. He is in police custody until November 20.
In between, Pune police had arrested Dattatraya Dhoke, who picked up Patil from Ambedkar Road and dropped him on the Kiwale exit level of the expressway in a automobile, Pradnya Kamble and Archana Nikam – each of whom harboured Patil in Nashik, Patil’s brother Bhushan Patil and his shut aide Abhishek Balkawade in addition to Dhoke’s employer and Rosary schooling group companion Vinay Aranha, who was beneath remedy on the prisoner’s ward, on the cost of helping and financing Patil’s escape. Kale and Jadhav’s arrest takes the full variety of accused within the case to eight.