PCMC official attacked with chopper, suffers head injury

Though the incident took place late on Tuesday, it remained unreported as the victim, Sachin Jadhav, was in a state of shock and was unable to communicate or recall the incident properly.

Written by Manoj Dattatrye More

Pune | Updated: October 19, 2015 05:16 AM IST

3 min read

A health inspector of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) was attacked with a chooper by a man in Bhosari, leaving him severely injured on the head and hands. The sudden attack caught the official unawares, but he managed to ward off the threat to his life by clutching on to the chopper even as he bled profusely.

Though the incident took place late on Tuesday, it remained unreported as the victim, Sachin Jadhav, was in a state of shock and was unable to communicate or recall the incident properly.

Jadhav, who suffered 32 stitches on his head and hands, was first admitted to the intensive care unit of a private hospital and later shifted to a special ward where he regained full consciousness.

After he narrated the incident to Bhosari police, the accused, a resident of Dighi, was arrested and later sent to a three-day police custody by a local court.

In his complaint, Jadhav, who is recuperating at a Bhosari hospital, said he was heading for a late-night dinner with his four friends to a hotel in Landewadi area.

“As I was following my friends who had stepped inside the hotel, a man suddenly came running from behind and attacked me with a chopper. He hit me on the back first and as I turned, he attacked me on the head. Fortunately, I managed to catch hold of the chopper with both the hands. Though my hands were hurting and bleeding, I did not loosen my grip. When my friends came rushing to see me, the attacker fled from the spot,” said Jadhav. Jadhav said he had never seen the attacker before.

“I have no clue about him or whether he had approached me for some civic works.

I also have no enmity with anyone,” he said.

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Police Sub-Inspector Ravindra Pingale said prima facie it seems the incident is a fall-out of an altercation between Jadhav and the attacker on way to the hotel.
“Jadhav and his friends, all aged between 36 and 42 years, had gone for a dinner party in one vehicle. While boarding the vehicle, Jadhav and the attacker apparently brushed against each other, triggering the incident in a fit of rage,” he said, adding, their does not seem to be any past enmity between Jadhav and the attackers.

Meanwhile, the Jadhav family has decided to shift their residence from Bhosari to other parts of Pimpri-Chinchwad.

“Bhosari is becoming increasingly dangerous. Every day, such attacks keep taking place. After Diwali we will shift elsewhere,” said Jadhav.

Manoj Dattatrye More

Manoj More has been working with the Indian Express since 1992. For the first 16 years, he worked on the desk, edited stories, made pages, wrote special stories and handled The Indian Express edition. In 31 years of his career, he has regularly written stories on a range of topics, primarily on civic issues like state of roads, choked drains, garbage problems, inadequate transport facilities and the like. He has also written aggressively on local gondaism. He has primarily written civic stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad, Khadki, Maval and some parts of Pune. He has also covered stories from Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahmednagar and Latur. He has had maximum impact stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial city which he has covered extensively for the last three decades. Manoj More has written over 20,000 stories. 10,000 of which are byline stories. Most of the stories pertain to civic issues and political ones. The biggest achievement of his career is getting a nearly two kilometre road done on Pune-Mumbai highway in Khadki in 2006. He wrote stories on the state of roads since 1997. In 10 years, nearly 200 two-wheeler riders had died in accidents due to the pathetic state of the road. The local cantonment board could not get the road redone as it lacked funds. The then PMC commissioner Pravin Pardeshi took the initiative, went out of his way and made the Khadki road by spending Rs 23 crore from JNNURM Funds. In the next 10 years after the road was made by the PMC, less than 10 citizens had died, effectively saving more than 100 lives. Manoj More's campaign against tree cutting on Pune-Mumbai highway in 1999 and Pune-Nashik highway in 2004 saved 2000 trees. During Covid, over 50 doctors were asked to pay Rs 30 lakh each for getting a job with PCMC. The PCMC administration alerted Manoj More who did a story on the subject, asking then corporators how much money they demanded....The story worked as doctors got the job without paying a single paisa. Manoj More has also covered the "Latur drought" situation in 2015 when a "Latur water train" created quite a buzz in Maharashtra. He also covered the Malin tragedy where over 150 villagers had died. Manoj More is on Facebook with 4.9k followers (Manoj More), on twitter manojmore91982 ... Read More

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