The Pune police on Thursday arrested four men for smuggling ivory worth R3.50 crore to sell it in Pune. Aditya Sandeep Khandage, 19, Hrishikesh Harishchandra Gaikwad, 28, Aniket Chandrakant Astekar, 26, and Amit Ashok Pishka, 28, from Ahmednagar were arrested after a case was registered with the Dattawadi police station under the Wildlife Protection Act.

Senior inspector Devidas Ghevare of Dattawadi police station said, "All four of them were friends with Gaikwad being a Physics graduate and Astekar holding an MBA degree in Finance. We had received a tip-off from our informants regarding some men visiting Pune from Ahmednagar to sell ivory. We thus reached the Pu La Deshpande garden at Sinhagad road and detained them.