Ex-employee booked for setting fire to cooling tower at Waluj MIDC company in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

A company's cooling tower was gutted in a fire in the Waluj MIDC area of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A former employee is accused of setting the fire at Eurotech Engineering in the Vadgaon Kolhati area. A case has been registered at MIDC Waluj police station against the accused, Sherkhan Pathan.

Sagar Chandrakant Puri, 32, lives in Gajanan Nagar in the Garkheda area. Eurotech Engineering, located on Plot No. 61 in Vadgaon Kolhati, is his company. Sherkhan Pathan, 50, a resident of Azad Chowk, Jinsi, used to work there.

On November 7, at 10.30 am, Pathan came to work drunk and was removed from his job for that reason. At 10.40 pm the same day, he phoned Puri and threatened to cause damage by setting fire to the company's goods. Puri asked him about it, but he gave no reply.

The next morning, November 8, company employees Ramesh Waghmare and Shakir Shaikh phoned Puri to say that the company's shutter had been pulled off and the goods kept inside had burnt.

On receiving the news, Puri reached the company with his friend Akshay Thate. The front shutter was found bent. Inside, they found an ARP cooling tower worth Rs 90,000 burnt, causing the company a heavy financial loss.

Puri then checked the CCTV footage of Gajanan Agro company, located behind his company. It clearly shows Pathan setting fire to the cooling tower at around 11 pm on November 7.

On the basis of this footage, Puri filed a complaint at MIDC Waluj police station. On his complaint, police have registered a case against Pathan under Section 326(e) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.