Duo arrested for killing ‘vada pav’ vendor

Pune: The night police patrol took two men into custody for allegedly bludgeoning their neighbour and friend, a 22-year-old vada pav vendor, to death at an open ground in Keshavnagar, Mundhwa, around 2.30am on Friday.
The assailants Subhash Kengar (24) and Prakash Bhosale (26) both from Gairanvasti in Keshavnagar murdered their neighbour Suraj alias Bablu Vilas Atole due to previous enmity.Around seven months ago, Atole and the assailants had gotten into a fight after one of them, under the influence of alcohol allegedly abused his mother.
Around 11pm on Thursday, the assailants took Atole to an open ground for consuming liquor. Around 2.30am, a dispute broke between them over the same issue.
Bhosale then broke a beer bottle on Atole's head. Both the assailants then picked up a heavy stone and bludgeoned him to death. "The assailants were rushing home and the motorbike developed a problem. When they were pushing the bike, a patrol comprising Shakur Pathan and Anil Sarode stopped them, seeing that their clothes were soaked in blood," senior inspector Jan Mohammad Pathan, in-charge of the Mundhwa police station, said.
Pathan said that the assailants were taken into custody after they failed to explain why there were blood stains on their clothes. The assailants tried to evade the arrest claiming they had met with an accident. But the patrol did not find any injuries on them, neither was there a dent on the motorbike.
During sustained interrogation, the assailants confessed to have murdered Atole due to previous enmity.
Kengar works as a delivery boy at a gas agency while Bhosale is a painting labourer. The victim's mother Rama Vikas Atole (42) has filed a complaint of murder against the assailants under the Indian Penal Code, Pathan added.
Our clothes were soaked in blood because we had met with an accident. This is what two men told a night police patrol when they were stopped on suspicion while pushing a motorbike. The patrol did not find injuries on their person and nor did they notice a dent on the bike. Fearing that they had committed some crime, the patrol took them into custody for interrogation. Their suspicion turned out to be true, when they confessed of bludgeoning a 22 year old vada pav vendor to death in an open ground at Keshavnagar in Mundhwa on Friday around 2.30 am.
The assailants Subhash Kengar (24) and Prakash Bhosale (26) from Gairanvasti in Keshavnagar murdered Suraj alias Bablu Vilas Atole due to previous enmity.
Around seven months ago a dispute had broke between Atole and the suspects after one of them had allegedly abused his mother under the influence of liquor.
On Thursday around 11 pm, the assailants are neighbours took Atole on a bike for consuming liquor in an open ground. On Friday around 2.30 am a dispute broke between them over the same issue again, when Bhosale hit a beer bottle on Atole's head. Bhosale and Kengar picked up a stone weighing around 20 kg and bludgeoned him to death.
"The assailants were rushing home when the bike developed technical problem. They started pushing the bike, when a patrol comprising Shakur Pathan and Anil Sarode stopped them on seeing their clothes soaked in blood," said senior inspector Jan Mohammad Pathan the in-charge of the Mundhwa police station.
Pathan said, "The patrol took the assailants into custody and brought them to the police station after they failed to offer an explanation on how blood stains were found on their clothes. The assailants during sustained interrogation confessed of murdering Atole by smashing his face and head with a heavy stone for taking revenge from him due to previous enmity."
Atole earned his living by selling vada pava in Keshavnagar. Kengar is working as a deliver boy in a gas agency while Bhosale is a painting labourer. The trio are friends and neighbours residing in the same area. The victims mother Rama Vikas Atole (42) has filed a complaint of murder against the assailants under the Indian Penal Code, he added.