23 June,2026 07:59 PM IST | Beed | mid-day online correspondent
The police recovered the stolen amount of Rs 23,000 and seized two motorcycles that were used by the gang to commit the robbery. Representational pic
Days after a gang assaulted a motorcyclist and robbed him of Rs 23,000 cash in Beed district of Maharashtra, police have arrested four of its members, officials said on Tuesday.
The incident had occurred near Samnapur village on the Dhule-Solapur highway on Beed Bypass Road in the early hours of June 16, news agency PTI reported, quoting officials.
The complainant, 42-year-old Radheshyam Nandlal Parikh, was riding his motorcycle from Pali in Beed tehsil towards Beed when four unidentified men intercepted him around 2.30 am. They assaulted him and robbed Rs 23,000 cash he was carrying, before fleeing, an official said.
Based on a complaint, a case was registered with the Beed Rural police station under section 309 (6) (robbery) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The local crime branch launched a probe and examined the CCTV footage. Acting on a tip-off, the team identified the prime suspect as Avezkhan Parvezkhan (25), a resident of the Barshi Naka area.
The police apprehended Avezkhan and his three accomplices Aniket alias Chikya Vishwas Dongre (23), Avinash Shailendra Sasane (23) and Vivekanand Dilip Galande (26) from nearby areas. During interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime, the official said.
The police recovered the stolen amount of Rs 23,000 and seized two motorcycles that were used by the gang to commit the robbery. All four suspects have been handed over to the Beed Rural police station for further proceedings, he said.
Unidentified thieves stole cash and gold ornaments worth around Rs 4.5 lakh from the house of a farmer in Beed tehsil of Maharashtra in the wee hours of Monday, police said.
The incident occurred in the Mulukwadi area, news agency PTI reported.
"Preliminary estimates suggest that the burglars stole around three tolas of gold ornaments and Rs 50,000 in cash that had been kept aside for the purchase of fertiliser, taking the total value of the stolen property to approximately Rs 4.5 lakh," an official said.
Police are scanning CCTV camera footage from the surrounding area to identify the burglars, he said.
(With PTI inputs)
