Youth killed in Sarkoli near Pandharpur; man booked over pickup run-over and stone attack

A youth has been brutally killed in the Sarkoli area of Pandharpur taluka in Solapur district. The deceased has been identified as Vishnu Dnyaneshwar Jadhav. The incident has caused panic across the area.

Police have registered a case against Kailas Rama Babar. According to preliminary information, the killing is said to have stemmed from suspicion of an illicit relationship. It is alleged that the suspect first drove a pickup vehicle over Jadhav and then attacked him with a large stone. Jadhav was badly injured in the attack and died.

Police reached the spot on receiving news of the incident. The body has been sent for postmortem. Police are now trying to establish the actual reason for the killing and the background to the incident. They are also examining whether anyone else was involved. Whether the murder was indeed caused by suspicion of an illicit relationship is also under investigation.

In a separate incident, a knife attack has been reported. Holding a grudge over his intervention in a quarrel at a college, four people stopped an LLB student and attacked him with a knife. The student suffered injuries to the fingers of his right hand. His friend was also stabbed and seriously injured. Both are being treated at a private hospital.

The incident took place on the afternoon of October 17 in front of the Salim Baba (Sailani Baba) Wheel Alignment Centre in N-6, CIDCO. The attackers have been named as Harsh Rathod, Swapnil Rathod, Sanket Rathod and Sonya. A case has been registered against all four at CIDCO police station. The complaint was filed by Pritamsing Devichand Barwal (22), a resident of Bhagatsingh Nagar, Hasul.