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Youth selling revolvers in city nabbedIn what is being viewed as a major breakthrough in busting an interstate racket involved in selling...

Youth selling revolvers in city nabbed
In what is being viewed as a major breakthrough in busting an interstate racket involved in selling firearms and ammunition illegally, the Pune police on Thursday arrested a youth hailing from Madhya Pradesh and recovered three country-made revolvers along with their ammunition from him.

Bharat Singh Bisal Singh Rawat, the 27-year-old resident of Mulgaon village in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, was arrested in a high drama on busy Shivaji Road during the peak hours of Thursday evening. He was remanded to seven-day police custody after being produced in front of a judicial magistrate first class on Friday afternoon.

The preliminary investigations have revealed that Rawat had been smuggling weapons from Morena and selling them to residents of Pune illegally for quite some time, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone I Ajit Patil.

Patil told the newspersons that a team of Pune policemen will leave for Morena tomorrow to investigate suspected involvement of a major gang. Meanwhile, he said, Rawat was being interrogated for further details about his previous arms deals in the city.

The police officials claimed that Rawat8217;s arrest was the outcome of a drive launched by the Pune police on the instance of directives by the Election Commission to curb smuggling of weapons inside the city in the wake of the ensuing parliamentary and assembly elections.

Cheating case against broker
The Swargate police have lodged a case of cheating when a broker failed to make the promised payments totalling to Rs 21 lakh to the investors.

According to a complaint filed by Naresh Gurdasmal Ajwani, he along with 21 others were promised two per cent interest along with shares by Baburao Laxman Ghugre of Pooja Investment and Share Brokers. Ghugre allegedly failed to pay the interest and return the principal amount invested with him to the depositors. The police have lodged a case of cheating.

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Four injured in cylinder blast
Four of a family including three children were burnt in Ambegaon in Haveli taluka when a LPG gas cylinder left on during the night burst into flames on Friday morning.

According to the Haveli police Vitthal Bandu Beldare 40, his wife Baby 35 and their three sons, Amar 15, Sameer 13 and Nikhil 11 were sleeping when the incident ocurred. Vitthal was the worst affected and sustained 60 per cent burns while the others were reported to have 20 to 30 per cent burns. Citing negligence on part of the family, police say that somebody forgot to switch off the gas cylinder in the night leading to the incident.