Two persons, including a security guard, were killed and six others injured after 55-year-old Raju Ghule, a resident of an Ahilyanagar old-age home, brutally attacked seven occupants and the guard with a metal-tipped walking stick early Saturday.
Some of the panic-stricken male occupants managed to come out of the home and rushed to a nearby petrol pump where they narrated the incident. The petrol pump staff alerted the local police. The police have registered a first in information report (FIR) against Ghule under multiple sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) including murder, intentionally causing hurt using dangerous instruments etc.
The sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Ahilyanagar (rural), Sirish Vamane, said that two of the victims–an 80-year-old resident of the old age home, Dattatray Harke and the 55-year-old security guard, Mahakaleshwar Hene–died on the spot.
The assistant police inspector of MIDC police, Hemant Thorat, said that Ghule has been arrested and his family who stay at Kopargaon taluka in that same district have been informed about the incident. “When we arrived at the home by 6:30 am we saw that a part of the floor where the male occupants used to stay was soaked in blood,” police said.
