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The elderly couple was fast asleep then. But residents of none of them saw the robbers walking into the vasti and leaving the house after assaulting the couple. His injured wife, Mukta (61), has been admitted to the Sassoon General Hospital . The hospital authorities stated that her condition was critical.The robbers walked into Gadade’s small house at Gadade Vasti, a small hamlet of Dongargaon, about 35km from the city, through its main door with an axe. PUNE: Three persons assaulted an elderly man to death and inflicted serious head injuries on his wife with sharp weapons before fleeing with gold ornaments worth Rs60,000 from their Dongargaon residence, off Pune-Ahmednagar highway, in the early hours of Tuesday.The Lonikand police identified the deceased as Kerba Diva Gadade (65)..