Bar Leader arrested for role in Murder of fellow Advocate

Pune Bar Association Secretary Lawyer Ghanshyam Popat Darade (37) has been arrested in connection with the abduction & murder of Lawyer Umesh More.

The Pune Police have arrested the Bar Association Secretary for informing the assailants about the current location of More, which amounted to abetting the heinous crime, Police said. He has been remanded to Police custody till Oct 31.

The Shivajinagar Police had earlier arrested 3 persons- Kapil Vilas Phalke (34); Deepak Shivaji Vandekar (28) & Rohit Dattatreya Shende (32) on charges of Murder.

Umesh More had gone missing from Shivajinagar Court since Oct 1 & was murdered by Phalke & Vandekar & his body was burnt & dumped at Tamhini ghat on the same day, according to the police. The third accused Lawyer Rohit had masterminded the killing of Advocate More, the Police had said the details in their FIR & submissions before the Court.

More who dealt with land dispute related cases was a complainant in an anti-corruption case in 2018 wherein a bribe of Rs 1.17 crore changed hands. Phalke & Vandekar got him talking on the day of the abduction & took him near their car on the pretext of discussion. He was subsequently kidnapped & whisked away in the car & murdered. His brother Prashant More later lodged an FIR in the case. The role of Phalke & Vandekar came into light after they were seen in the CCTV footage while getting into the car with advocate More.

To evade arrest & mislead the policemen investigating the case, one of the suspects threw the mobile phone in a truck so that his location would be revealed as far away from their actual location where he committed the murder with the other accomplice. 

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