AURANGABAD: Around 10 days after some workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) disconnected the water supply line to civic administrator Astik Kumar Pandey’s residence, the city police have managed to arrest six people.
The suspects were produced before the court on Wednesday and were remanded in one-day police custody. The suspects have been identified as Bipin Naik (37) of Pruthviraj Nagar, Vaibhav Mitkar (35) of Adarsh Colony, Sanket Shete (32) of Chatrapati Nagar, Rahul Patil (30) of Dnyaneshwar Nagar, Prashant Dahiwadkar (50) of Vasant Vihar and Manish Jogdande (37) of Manak Complex on Railway Station road.
The MNS workers were demanding restoration of equitable and regular water supply to all the areas of the city and had warned of cutting the water connection to Pandey’s bungalow if their demand was not fulfilled. Pointing out that some areas have been receiving water only once in eight days, the MNS had raised serious questions over the discrimination.
Police as well as the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) officials were left red-faced after the MNS worker not only cut the water connection early on July 18 morning, but also recorded a video of the act and uploaded the on the social media.
Based on a complaint lodged by AMC’s water supply department’s deputy engineer Ashok Padde, MNS workers were booked on charges of damage to public property. In addition to this they were also slapped with different sections of the IPC for violating orders duly promulgated by government authority and for unlawfully or negligently doing any act which is likely to spread infection or disease dangerous to life.
City Chowk police inspector Sambhaji Pawar said, “We requested the court for three-day police custody to recover the tools used by the suspects to cut the water line. But the court granted only one-day custody.”
