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Pune Crime Files | How items planted at 2 murder scenes 8 years apart failed to mislead police

February 09, 2026 4:26 pm

Jaitu Chindhu Borkar allegedly killed Ranjana Arun Waghmare, 25, and her lover Suraj Ankush Wagh, 30, in Pune district’s Baramati taluka last month.

Pune Crime Files: How thieves who broke into a govt strong room 'for cash' ended up walking out with an EVM

January 26, 2026 2:45 pm

The first of its kind theft from a tehsildar’s office in Maharashtra ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls left the police and the government machinery in Pune shaken.

The Pune Rural police with the arrested accused and recovered jewellery.

Pune Crime Files: How a dramatic swim chase in river led to arrest of robbers after their Rs 1-crore heist at jewellery shop

January 19, 2026 4:14 pm

After the robbers fled on bikes, the Pune Rural police traced them to a forest area in the Velhe taluka and chased them.

(Photo. Siba with her handlers Constables Ganesh Phapale and Baburao Chaudhari)

Pune Crime Files: How police dog Siba cracked a brutal armed robbery that left five injured

December 01, 2025 3:05 pm

But in the chaos, one of the robbers who was wearing a red shirt made a fatal mistake — his face cover slipped as he tore the gold from Mahananda, giving Kerba a clear look at him.

Police thought the accused committed the crime after observing their luxurious lifestyle and purchases. (File Photo)

Pune Crime Files: why 3 convicted for brutally murdering a family of 4 in 1997 walked free

October 27, 2025 12:03 pm

The Patils had just moved to Pune’s Kalyani Nagar in 1997 when they were brutally murdered by a watchman and two others during a robbery at their apartment.

A leopard’s growl, claw marks, and a lie: How a blood-stained rock and a forensic report exposed a murder in a sugarcane field

September 29, 2025 5:35 pm

In December last year, Latabai Dhawade was found dead in a field in Maharashtra’s Kadethan village. Her nephew claimed she was killed by a leopard.

Pune Crime Files: Who burgled and vandalised Sangeeta Bijlani's bungalow? Mystery remains unsolved

September 22, 2025 11:03 am

Sandeep Singh Gill, Superintendent of Pune Rural Police, assured Sangeeta Bijlani that they would crack the case soon.

Just before lighting funeral pyre: how Pune rural cops smelled foul play, intervened to uncover murder of 9-year-old boy by father

September 29, 2025 5:34 pm

A single parent tried to pass off his elder son's alleged murder as a death after fainting. A probe revealed that the father allegedly tortured the boy for "behaving like his mother", and strangled him to death.

Politics, disputes and murders, all in the family: How the dreaded Andekar gang has remained active in Pune for 4 decades

September 08, 2025 7:35 pm

Last year's murder of former NCP corporator Vanraj Andekar and the alleged retaliatory killing of an 18-year-old have brought the Andekar gang back into the spotlight.

Pune Crime Files: How offering a ride to 4 strangers turned fatal for Nashik cab driver

August 11, 2025 2:18 pm

A taxi driver left Nashik for Pune, telling his wife that he would return by night. However, she later received a late-night call from his phone, which had been found on the highway by someone. She soon realised that her worst fears had come true.