Delivery partner held after fatal accident in Pune turns out to be murder

Pune: An investigation of the Bavdhan police into an accidental death case of Sus-based Kunal Mohite (38) turned around after they arrested Ashish Pol (26), a delivery person, on Saturday for a murder plot.Mohite, who worked with a logistics firm, was on his routine morning walk on May 16 when a speeding car knocked him down in front of Platinum Society in Mohannagar in Baner.He was immediately rushed to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. The Bavdhan police had registered a case of accidental death and began the investigation.Senior inspector Anil Vibhute of the Bavdhan police told TOI, “Our team checked the CCTV footage in the area and found that a white compact sports utility vehicle (SUV) caused the accident.

Our suspicion grew deeper when we noticed the same car near Mohite’s residential building before the accident.”The investigating officer and police sub-inspector Sarang Thakare had visited the accident spot and found a broken registration number plate.Vibhute said what corroborated our suspicion of murder was that the registration plate turned out to be a fake. “Our team then checked the call details of the victim and his acquaintances.

We found that a woman known to the deceased had remained in contact with a cellphone number for the past two years. However, that number had been switched off since May 16. We zeroed in on that number,” the officer said.He said the number became active two days ago for a short time, and our system picked up a call from someone to that number. “The caller was from a car rental firm in Wadgaon Dhayari. Our team reached the firm and found that a person had rented a compact SUV on May 14.

The same car which was involved in the accident,” he said.PSI Thakare said the police checked the footage and identified the person who had rented the car. This led a police team, led by assistant police inspector Ashok Dongre, to nab Ashish Pol of Parvati. “During interrogation, Pol admitted to killing Mohite,” Thakare said.He said Pol, who works as a delivery person, and the woman known to Mohite were in a relationship for the last two years. Mohite was unaware of it. Pol hatched a plot to eliminate Mohite. “He rented a car, blackened its windows, changed the graphics on the rear windscreen and executed the plot,” the officer said.“We are investigating whether the woman was also involved in the plot. Pol was produced before the court on Saturday. The court remanded him to police custody for seven days,” the officer said.