Pimpri: A shocking case of kidnapping of a person working in share trading for 300 crore crypto currency and 8 lakh ransom and its mastermind being a police employee has come to light. This police personnel is posted in Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Force. He was earlier working in the cyber cell of Pune Police. He had a lot of knowledge about cryptocurrency. He had come to know that the stock trader has 300 crore crypto currency.
To get crypto currency and money from him, the policeman along with his accomplices carried out the kidnapping incident. However, when the police came to know about the information, they left the kidnapped person in Wakad. The Wakad police have arrested eight people, including the accused policeman, with great care.
Police employee removed mastermind
Dilip Tukaram Khandare is the name of such arrested policeman. He is the mastermind of this whole incident. Along with him, Wakad police have also arrested his associates including Sunil Ram Shinde, Vasant Shyamrao Chavan, Francis Timotee D’Souza, Mayur Mahendra Shirke, Pradeep Kashinath Kate, Shirish Chandrakant Khot, Sanjay alias Niki Rajesh Bansal. They are accused of kidnapping Vinay Sundarrao Naik from a hotel in Tathawade on January 14 and demanding ransom. Rafiq Allauddin Sayyed has lodged a complaint against him at Wakad police station.
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The incident happened on January 14
Giving information about this in a press conference, Police Commissioner Krishna Prakash said that on January 14, Vinay Naik was abducted by seven to eight unidentified people while he was staying in a hotel in Tathawade. Naik’s friend Syed informed the Wakad police about this. The police immediately registered a case and formed two squads. Police started technical analysis by collecting CCTV footage of the spot. Meanwhile, the accused got to know that the police were looking for him. They dropped Naik in the Wakad area and the accused fled.
Some accused were arrested from Mumbai
Naik told the police that the accused demanded bitcoin and Rs 8 lakh from him. Chasing the accused, the Wakad police reached Mumbai. The police arrested the four and confiscated the car used by them. The arrested accused confessed to committing the crime along with Rajesh Bansal and Shirish Khot at the behest of Pradeep Kate and Dilip Khandare. Naik was kidnapped and kept in a hotel in Alibaug and demanded Rs 8 lakh from him. After this the other three were arrested by the police.
mastermind was arrested from Bhosari
The accused said that the mastermind of this entire case was Dilip Khandare. Investigation revealed that Dilip Khandare is working in Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Force. Accordingly, the police conducted technical analysis and arrested Khandare from Bhosari. Khandare, along with his accomplices, confessed that he had conspired to commit the crime. Police sub-inspector Ganesh Torgal is probing the case. Police Constable Dilip Tukaram Khandare is working as Police Constable in Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissionerate. He was absent from duty at this time. He was earlier serving in the Pune City Police Force. While working in the Cyber Department, he has done courses like Office Automation, Cyber Crime Systems, Advanced Cyber Crime Investigation Technology, Basic of Hardware and Network Information, Mobile Forensics. When he was posted in the cyber crime unit in Pune city, he came to know that Vinay Sundarrao Naik had a total of 300 crores of bitcoins in the form of cryptocurrency. After this he hatched a conspiracy to kidnap Vinay Naik and extort money.
This team of police carried out the action
This action was taken under the guidance of Police Commissioner Krishna Prakash, Additional Commissioner Dr. Sanjay Shinde, Deputy Commissioner Anand Bhoite, Assistant Commissioner Shrikant Disle, Senior Police Inspector Dr. Wakad police station. Vivek Mugalikar, Police Inspector (Crime 1) Santosh Patil, Police Inspector (Crime 2) Ramchandra Ghadge, Assistant Inspector Santosh Patil, Abhijit Jadhav, Sub-Inspector Ganesh Torgal, Assistant Faujdar Bibhishan Kanherkar, Babajan Inamdar, Rajendra Kale, Police Staff Bapusaheb Dhumal, Vikram The team comprising of Kudal, Vijay Gambhir, Deepak Sabale, Bandu Gire, Atish Jadhav, Pramod Kadam, Atiq Sheikh, Prashant Gilbele, Vikrant Chavan, Kalpesh Patil, Kauntey Kharade, Ajay Falle, Nutan Konde executed.