Overview
- The victim was identified as 22-year-old Aditya Ganesh Bhagat of Bhosari, Pune, who set out with three friends in an Innova Crysta on Saturday.
- Investigators say an argument inside the car escalated on the Tamhini Ghat stretch, where Bhagat was allegedly strangled with a rope.
- His body was later found in an open plot known locally as Secret Point near Sanaswadi with multiple sharp-weapon injuries, and it was sent for post-mortem examination.
- Police arrested Aniket Mahesh Waghmare, 26, and Tushar alias Sonya Sharad Patole, 24, while Prajjwal alias Sonya Santosh Hambir remains absconding as search teams fan out.
- A murder case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered as officers used technical analysis and informant inputs to make swift arrests, with weapon recovery, event reconstruction, and checks on Waghmare’s prior car-theft cases underway.