‘They knew each other since childhood…Darshana rejected his marriage proposal’: Pune Rural police

“From circumstantial evidence and information given to us by various sources, Handore became the prime suspect who had fled from the spot and gone incommunicado. We were tracking his location and he seemed to have travelled to West Bengal and Delhi. We finally nabbed him from Andheri railway station in Mumbai late night on Wednesday. He has confessed to the crime,” Goyal said.

Handore hails from Sinnar taluka in Nashik district and is a science graduate who was preparing for civil services in Pune. He stayed at Hingane Home Colony in Pune’s Karve Nagar.

Darshana, the daughter of a driver at a sugar mill in Ahmednagar, had recently cleared the Maharashtra Public Service Commission exam for the post of Range Forest Officer (RFO). She had travelled to Pune on June 9 to participate in a felicitation programme organised by a civil services coaching academy. Darshana’s speech at the event later went viral.

Both Darshana and Handore were reported missing in separate police complaints lodged by their families last week.

The police said that a detailed interrogation will reveal the real motive and sequence of events that led up to the murder.