Three held in BJP leader’s murder case, sent to police custody

Sachin Shelke, former president of Talegaon Dabhade Municipal Council, was travelling in his car when assailants waylaid him near a petrol pump on Sunday. The attackers asked Shelke to get down from the car and fired a round at him and then attacked him with sharp-edged weapons before fleeing. The murder was a fallout of previous enmity, police said adding that Shelke and his family members had survived an attack in 2013.

Meanwhile, all the three arrested accused were produced in a local court in Maval tehsil, where they were remanded to police custody till October 24. Situation in and around Talegaon has been tense and heavy police force have been deployed there. The absconding accused Shyam Dabhade, who was also suspect in 2010 RTI activist Satish Shetty murder case, was booked in several cases, including extortion, attempt to murder.