Summary:
The officer said the gang was targeting labourers walking at night on the road between Ambethan and Shinde Vasuli near Chakan. Three men had intercepted him near Chakan and snatched his cellphone.“Gund tried to resist the three from robbing his cash. The suspects used to target the labourers while walking back to home or towards the industrial units at night. “During questioning, the trio admitted to their involvement in five robberies on the Ambethan-Shinde Vasuli road recently. The Pune rural police attribute the trend to the exponential increase in the population in the past decade with the Chakan industrial estate of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation attracting thousands of workers from various states.The 2011census had put Chakan’s population at about 42,000..