PUNE: The Wanowrie police on Friday arrested a 21-year-old criminal on police record for demanding Rs2,000 from a vendor and vandalising his tempo, filled with vegetables, after the latter refused to meet his demands.
The incident took place outside the Rajiv Gandhi colony on Mohammadwadi Road on the evening of July 1. Assistant inspector Jaywant Jadhav said on Saturday, “Suspect Rohan Kamble from Taravade vasthi approached vendor Nayum Bagwan (39) fromSayyednagar and demanded Rs 2,000 for consuming liquor, but he refused to meet his demands.”
Jadhav said,“Kamble, a criminal on record, again demanded money from Bagwan and told him that he will have to meet his demand if he intends to do business in the area and threatened to kill him, but the vendor refused to offer him money.”
“Kamble, in a fit of anger, picked up a bamboo stick and attacked Bagwan on his head, vandalised his tempo, ransacked the vegetable stall, tore plastic sheet affixed on the stall and took to heels. Bagwan has suffered loss to the tune of Rs12,000,” he added.
