Man who paid Rs 2 lakh contract for attack on Rana Suryawanshi in Baramati arrested

Police have made a breakthrough in the probe into the attack on Rana Suryawanshi, owner of Rana Shipping Company, in the Baramati airport area. The investigation has found that a contract of Rs 2 lakh was given to attack him.

The attack took place on October 18 at around 7.15 pm in the Baramati airport area. The attackers were armed. According to police, the man who gave the contract is Dnyandev Mahadev Shinde, 50. He is originally from Veet village in Karmala taluka of Solapur and currently lives in Thoratnagar, Bhigwan, in Indapur taluka.

Baramati taluka police have arrested Shinde. After the attack, around six police teams were deployed to catch the attackers. Meanwhile, Pune city police detained two suspects from Karvenagar in Pune: Parth Vasudev Awthale and a child in conflict with law. Both were handed over to Baramati taluka police for further investigation.

When police questioned Awthale and the juvenile, it emerged that Shinde had given them the Rs 2 lakh contract to carry out the attack. A Baramati court has sent Awthale and Shinde to police custody till October 23.

Suryawanshi is the owner of a shipping company. He is originally from Malegaon in Baramati taluka and now lives in Pune. He is also said to work in the field of education.

On the day of the attack, he was travelling to Daund in the evening. On the way, he had stopped at Gojubavi in Baramati taluka to look at a plot of land. At that moment, attackers who came on the pretext of presenting a bouquet assaulted him. Suryawanshi has Y-plus category security, but the security personnel were not with him at the time of the attack. He was accompanied by private bodyguards.

Suryawanshi has been attacked before, in Solapur district. In this attack he suffered an injury to his hand and is being treated at a private hospital in Pune.