Pune News Live Updates: Those who keep silent equally guilty of insulting Shivaji, said MP Udayanraje Bhosale in Raigad
Pune News Live Updates, December 4: A day after he remarked that he felt like “chopping off the necks of those who insulted Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj”, BJP MP Udayanraje Bhosale, a direct descendant of the Maratha warrior, said on Saturday, “Those who keep silent are equally guilty, like Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, of insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.” The BJP MP launched an ‘Akrosh Morcha’ in Raigad to protest Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s remark referring to Chhatrapati Shivaji as an icon of the ‘olden days’ on Saturday.
In other news, a man, his wife and their four-year-old son were killed after a truck, which was allegedly speeding, knocked them down on the Patas-Kusegaon road in Pune district’s Daund taluka on Friday afternoon, police said. Officers identified the deceased as Santosh Sadashiv Sabale, 40, Rohini Santosh Sabale, 35, and their son Guru Sabale, all residents of Patas. The family was travelling towards Patas from Kusegaon on a two-wheeler around 12.30 pm when the truck hit them. Santosh and his wife died on the spot, while Guru succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital.
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been invoked against a gang of six persons that allegedly extorted money from a businessman. Police have identified the six accused as Yogesh Nagpure (35), the ‘gang leader’, Pramod Salunkhe (25), Wajid ayyad (25), Mangesh Tamnbe (28), Lakshmansingh alias Hanumanta Tanvar (35) and a woman. Police said Nagpure and the woman accused are still on the run and attempts are on to trace and arrest them.
