Pune: Three arrested for abducting LPG cylinder delivery staff, extorting Rs 2 L
PUNE CITY police have arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping two LPG cylinder delivery staff and releasing them after extorting Rs 2 lakh from their kin in March this year.
The accused have been identified as Satish Sudhir Vanjale (33) of Ambegaon, Dattanagar, Vikas tukaram Koditkar (30) of Jambhulwadi, and Sudarshan Kishor Gangawane (25) of Bibvewadi.
A press release issued on Friday by the crime branch stated that on the morning of March 15, a gang of six persons — four in a car and two on a motorcycle — intercepted a tempo carrying LPG cylinders near Chaturshringi temple. Claiming to be crime branch sleuths, the six accused the two men inside the tempo of selling LPG cylinders in the black market and threatened to take legal action against them.
