Another HRS member arrested in Pune techie murder case

June 10, 2014 15:21

One more person has been taken into custody in connection with the mob violence and murder of Mohsin Shaikh (in picture, left), a 28-year-old techie at Hadapsar in Pune on June 2 after the surfacing of objectionable Facebook posts, taking the number of arrests in the case to 20.

The 21-year-old youth, who was arrested last night, belonged to Hindu Rashtra Sena, and was allegedly involved in the violent incident at Bankar colony in the suburb, the police said today. Among the arrested are two minors, who have been sent to remand home.

The head of HRS Dhananjay Desai was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days yesterday in an offence registered at Loni Kalbhor in rural Pune for circulation of inflammatory literature causing social and communal disharmony.

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