Mistaken for robber,man jailed for 2 days

Pardesi had been arrested Saturday and sent to two-day judicial custody on Monday. Karelibaug Police Inspector S M Varotariya said the confusion emerged due to the way the accused were named in the FIR and their similarity to Pardesi and his wife,Sunita.

“While Kakde,who had lodged an FIR,had given full name of one accused,the identity of other two accused was not clear by name,” Varotariya said.

In her FIR,Kakde had identified three persons — Bhavnaben Kahar,Sunitaben,and Sunitaben’s husband — as three accused who robbed her of a TV set and jewellery together worth Rs 12,600.

Police first arrested Bhavnaben Kahar,who led them to the husband-wife duo. Police were confident about Pardesi and his wife being the other two accused after they moved court to seek anticipatory bail following the arrest of Bhavnaben Kahar,who knew and named them as the other two accused.

“When Bhavnaben was arrested,she said she knew Hemant Pardesi and Sunita,the husband-wife due,with description similar to the ones who were named in the FIR. So we set out to arrest them. While Sunitaben sought and got anticipatory bail,Pardesi failed to do so and was arrested,” Varotariya said.

The police registered an application to the local court seeking to drop offences against Pardesi under section 169 of CRPC. Meanwhile,police arrested another accused named Bhikhabhai Kahar in this case and sent him to one-day remand.