Anil Dhawade, aides held for beer bar brawl

NAGPUR, SEPT 9: Local corporator Anil Dhawade, who contested East Nagpur Assembly seat on a Janata Dal S ticket in the recently-held si...

NAGPUR, SEPT 9: Local corporator Anil Dhawade, who contested East Nagpur Assembly seat on a Janata Dal S ticket in the recently-held simultaneous polls, was arrested along with three aides for getting into a drunken brawl with employees of a beer bar at MIDC here, late on Tuesday night.

The foursome have been charged, among other things, with attempt to loot the bar and causing grievous hurt to one of the employees while on a rampage with sharp weapons like swords and knives. The barmen put up a strong resistance to Dhawade and his aides, even beating up two of them.

In the melee, the bar was left ransacked with shattered glass and other articles strewn all over the premises. Those arrested with Dhawade were identified as Hiralal Ganeshprasad Yadav 32, Satish Gangadhar Barbate 30 and Raju Laxman Shivrekar 33.

The injured employee, Munna Dhaniram Chiklondhe 22, was removed to the Government Medical College with a stab wound. Barbate and Shivrekar too landed in hospital after receiving a sound thrashing from the bar employees, sources said.

Senior police officials including DCP Zone-I Sanjay Kumar, ACPs K B Dogra Sitabuldi and Salunke Ganeshpeth and Ambazari Police Inspector V C Sayyam, who were taking rounds in the night, reached the spot soon after learning about the incident.

Later on Wednesday, tension prevailed in Maskasath locality near the busy Itwari market where a Tehsil police party had gone to arrest one of Dhawade8217;s aides, Kamlesh Samarth, involved in the fracas. His brother, Sanjay Samarth, was arrested when he led a mob in helping Kamlesh run away from the spot, despite police presence.

Besides the arrested four, Dhawade was accompanied by at least four to five other aides when they arrived at Executive Club 8212; the latest among the bars staging dance shows, situated along the Hingna Road 8212; in a Maruti Zen MH31-L8593 and a Maruti van MH31-H3296, at around 1.30 am.

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The bar had closed by that time, but Dhawade and his men insisted upon the gates being reopened. Attempts by the guards to convince them that the bar was closed proved futile as Dhawade and his aides, who were already drunk, picked up a quarrel. The verbal duel led to the fight, police said.