Mumbai: Woman police constable arrested for colleague's 'murder'
Mumbai, Sep 9: A woman constable and two others have been arrested for the alleged murder of a 54-year-old policeman who died in a hit-and-run incident at Panvel in neighbouring Navi Mumbai last month, an official said on Thursday.
Police naik Shivaji M Sanap died after a Nano car hit him near Panvel railway station on the night of August 15.
But after his wife suspected foul play, the police began to probe the murder angle and finally arrested constable Shital Pansare (29), Sanap's colleague at Nehru Nagar police station in Mumbai, and her two accomplices, the police official said.
Sanap lived in Pune from where he traveled to Mumbai every day via Panvel. From CCTV footage, a team of Panvel police led by senior inspector Ajaykumar Landge zeroed in on two persons who seemed to have followed him at Kurla railway station on August 15, the official said.
Probe revealed that Sanap and Pansare did not get along well, and FIRs had been registered against Sanap on her complaint for alleged sexual harassment in 2019.
Police also learnt that Pansare had married one Dhanraj Jadhav in 2018 who later left her and was now living in Chennai.
Pansare had allegedly wanted to kill Sanap for the last two years, and had asked her husband to help her, according to police. When he refused to help, she lodged a complaint for 'obscenity' against him, following which he left Mumbai, said the official.
The police approached Dhanraj Jadhav who identified one of the suspects seen in the CCTV footage at Kurla as Vishal Baban Jadhav (18), son of the watchman at the housing complex where Pansare lived. Vishal's questioning led the police to Ganesh Laxman Chavan alias Mudawath (21) who was arrested from Vikarabad in Telangana on Wednesday.
The duo allegedly told police that Pansare had hatched the conspiracy to kill Sanap and roped them in to stage a hit-and-run accident.
The accused had tried to burn the car after the crime, the official said, adding that it has been recovered by the investigators. Search is on for some more suspects in the case, he said.
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China confirms its support to Pakistan during four-day conflict with India
Beijing (PTI): China, for the first time, has confirmed that it provided on-site technical support to Pakistan during the four-day conflict with India last year, official media reports here said.
China's state broadcaster CCTV on Thursday aired an interview with Zhang Heng, an engineer from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China's (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, a key developer of China’s advanced fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle design.
Zhang had provided technical support to Pakistan during the four-day war last May, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported, quoting CCTV.
Pakistan's air force operates a fleet of Chinese-made J-10CE jets, produced by an AVIC subsidiary.
"At the support base, we frequently heard the roar of fighter jets taking off and the constant wail of air-raid sirens. By late morning, in May, the temperature was already approaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). It was a real ordeal for us, both mentally and physically,” Zhang said.
What drove his team was the "desire to do an even better job with on site support” and to ensure their equipment could “truly perform at its full combat potential”, Zhang told CCTV.
“That wasn’t just a recognition of the J10CE; it was also a testament to the deep bond we formed through working side by side, day in and day out,” he said.
