Gangster Tushar Hambir held after eight months on run in kidnapping of trader's son in Pune

The crime branch of Pune Rural Police has arrested a Hadapsar gangster who had been absconding for the past eight months. He is accused of kidnapping a trader's son for ransom and trying to kill him at gunpoint. The accused is Tushar Namdev Hambir, 40, a resident of Shri Chhatrapati Maharaj Chowk, Gondhalenagar, Hadapsar.

The operation was carried out under the guidance of Superintendent of Police Sandeepsingh Gill. Police Inspector Pramod Kshirsagar, Sub-Inspectors Yuvraj Dhonde, Santosh Todkar, Raju Momin, Amol Shedge, Chetan Patil and Bharat Mohol carried it out.

According to police, serious cases are already registered against Hambir. These include murder, attempt to murder, dacoity, attempted dacoity, obstructing a public servant, unlawful assembly, assault and possession of illegal arms.

The kidnapping took place on the afternoon of March 3, 2026, on the road from Kapurhol to Narayanpur in Purandar taluka. The trader lodged a complaint at Rajgad police station. He owns a liquor shop and a restaurant in Kapurhol. His son had left the restaurant for home on a motorbike in the afternoon when five or six men in a car abducted him.

When the trader learnt of it, he informed the police immediately. The car was chased as far as Shirwal and police began an investigation at once. It later emerged that the trader's son had been left at Pisurdi in Purandar taluka.

Questioned by police, the son said five or six men in a car had picked him up. He was threatened inside the car. One man pointed a pistol at him, and the accomplice seated beside him picked up a sickle and threatened to kill him. He also said a police vehicle was coming from the front. The kidnappers then took him into a field and later left him by the roadside. When police chased the car, the accused's car overturned by the roadside, and the accused abandoned it and fled, according to information that has also come to light.

The investigation showed that Hambir and his associates had kidnapped the son. Police arrested five people and booked them under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Hambir, the gang's leader, had been absconding since then. Police received information that he would be coming to the Phursungi area of Hadapsar, and detained him there.