Four arrested for robbery in Nashik district

Police in Maharashtra's Nashik district have arrested four persons for allegedly robbing two businessmen of Rs 3 lakh.

Navanath Zurade (30), Anil Gumbade (31), Laxman Gumbade (33), all residents of Pimpalgaon Bahula in Nashik district, and Prakash Bhadale (36), resident of Mumbai, were arrested Wednesday, a senior police official said.

Another accused, identified as Yogesh Pagare, was absconding, said district superintendent of police (rural) Sanjay Darade.

Police also seized two motorcycles, mobile phones, sticks and Rs 33,000 in cash from them, Darade said.

Ricky Agrawal and Madanmohan Agrawal, residents of Sangvi, Pune, were returning after visiting the holy town of Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district on October 2 when the incident took place, he said.

Prakash Bhadale, whom they had engaged as a guide, was also travelling with them, he said.

As they stopped the car for answering nature's call at Khambale Phata on Nashik-Trimbakeshwar road, four men who came on two motorcycles attacked them with sticks and looted Rs 3 lakh in cash from them, Darade said.

Local crime branch probed the case and arrested four accused within 12 hours, he said.

Bhadale was arrested on the suspicion that he was part of the conspiracy to loot the two businessmen, a local police official said.