Gangster Bandu Andekar, two builders booked for land grab, property fraud

Police said the complainant owned some land at Kondhawe Dhawade on the NDA road in Pune city. A few years before, he gave the land to the accused persons for construction of a residential project. Police said that Andekar and other three accused had assured to give some apartments in the project as compensation for the land to the complainant. But, after the project was completed, the accused allegedly cheated the complainant by selling these apartments elsewhere. Police said the complainant was also not given any money allegedly received from selling these apartments.

It is also alleged in the FIR that the accused took bank loans by submitting forged documents. The accused also allegedly took illegal possession of the complainant’s property, the FIR stated.

Police have booked the accused persons under Indian Penal Code sections 420, 406, 409, 452, 467, 471, 120(B), 506, and 34. Senior police inspector Mohan Khandare is investigating the case.

Police have tightened their grip on the alleged illegal activities of Andekar gang following the murder of 18 year old Ayush Komkar. Ayush was allegedly shot multiple times by two gunmen in the parking lot of his residential building in Bhavani Peth on September 5, in what is suspected to be revenge for the murder of former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator Vanraj Andekar, Bandu Andekar’s son, in September last year.

Ayush was the son of Bandu’s daughter Kalyani Komkar, whose husband Ganesh Komkar, sister Sanjivani (second daughter of Bandu Andekar) and brother in law Jayant Komkar (Sanjivani’s husband) are prime accused in Vanraj’s murder. Akshada is Jayant’s daughter, police said.

The police have so far arrested 16 people, including Bandu, nine people from his family, and other gang members in the Ayush Komkar murder case. Police have booked all the accused under sections of the BNS, Arms Act and the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). The police have also demolished several illegal structures owned by the Andekar gang in Pune.

Earlier this month, following complaints filed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials, three more FIRs were lodged against the Andekar family and gang members for allegedly putting up illegal banners at public places in Nana Peth area of the city.