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One killed, 2 injured in shoot-outOne person was killed and two grievously injured in a shoot -out at Sonu Dhaba near Kamshet on the Pune...

One killed, 2 injured in shoot-out
One person was killed and two grievously injured in a shoot -out at Sonu Dhaba near Kamshet on the Pune-Mumbai highway late Saturday night. Police suspect dispute over the ownership of the dhaba behind the shootout.

According to the Wadgaon Maval police, Manoj Muliram Lembe, a resident of Pimpri was allegedly killed and Karnail Singh Jangira, a resident of Khadki seriously injured when unknown assailants shot at them. The third occupant of the car, Balwant Singh Chavan, was also injured. Doctors described his condition as serious but stable. Jangira8217;s condition was stated to be critical.

The suspected killers were reported to be traveling in a white car. Jangira, police say, is a history-sheeter and was involved in several criminal cases and was arrested in 1998 by the Mumbai police for murder.

On Saturday, Jangira went to the dhaba along with his friends to discuss the ownership of the dhaba. Unknown assailants waylaid the three and on the way shot at them, killing Lembe on the spot.

Marksheet racket: 1 held
The Chatushrungi police on Sunday arrested a student of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University on charges of tampering with the records of University of Pune and obtaining a forged marks statement.

The action was taken a day after the Vice-Chancellor Dr Arun Nigavekar suspended the controller of examinations Santosh Dastane for disobeying the official orders to lodge a first information report FIR about a forged mark statement racket. The final year student of an engineering course, Sachin Prabhakar Naik, was arrested by sub-inspector R D Jadhav after the university registrar, M G Shinde, lodged an FIR against him, police said. Shinde lodged the FIR at Chatushrungi police station on Saturday afternoon.

Three others, named in the FIR as Bharati Vidyapeeth student Amit Kotwal, D Y Patil College student Rahul Patil and a professor from the same college, are still to be arrested, police said. According to the police, the three collegians had conspired with a professor from the D Y Patil College to tamper with the records of the university and to obtain forged mark statements to gain admission to the final year, police said.